(PHOTOS): YOBE GOVT GOES SPIRITUAL, DECLARES WAR AGAINST VANDALS DESTROYING ELECTRICITY TOWERS
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In reaction to the persistent problem of vandals breaking into power towers in the state on Wednesday, the Yobe State Government went all spiritual.
During a prayer session in the state capital of Damaturu, Babagana Kyari, the Special Adviser on Religious Affairs to Governor Mai Mala Buni, conveyed the government’s perspective.
Due to the vandals’ destruction of electrical towers, Borno and Yobe states are no longer connected to the national grid.
Kyari oversaw a group of Muslim clerics who performed prayers, the Holy Quran, and cow sacrifices in order to appease God for punishing the rebels who had destroyed the towers.
Slaughtering of cows after the prayer session.
This came about as a result of the governor’s threat that, once the towers were fixed, he would conduct prayers and the recital of the Holy Quran against the criminals who were determined to keep the two states without electricity.
The Yola Electricity Distribution Company recently revealed that the thieves had collapsed the towers twice, in December 2023 and February 2024, respectively. The Yobe State Government and the Transmission Company of Nigeria had worked together to fix both incidents.
Kyari declared that enough was enough as he led Muslim clerics and students of the Holy Quran who took part in Wednesday’s recitation and prayers session, when cows were offered for Allah to reveal and punish the rebels shattering the electrical towers.
“The Spiritual prayer session was for Allah to expose and punish the criminals, their sponsors, their supporters, those who helped them with the tools used in the destruction of the towers, their transporters to the scene of the crime, whoever knows but refuses to expose them, buyers of the vandalised tower parts, and transformers thieves,” Kyari said.
The towers are part of the Jos – Gombe grid serving Borno and Yobe states with electricity.
All efforts to speak with the Director General, Media and Press Affairs to Governor Buni, Mohammed Mamman, proved abortive at press time, as phone calls put to him were not successful.
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