New Nyanya Women Protest Nude Over Power Outage

Women of Peace Zone Estate, Ado, New Nyanya, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) last Saturday, staged a nude protest to the Power Holding Company of Nigeria(PHCN), service station, New Nyanya.

The women, numbering over 50 who removed some of their clothes besieged the PHCN premises, over what they termed as unwholesome behaviour of PHCN officials.

The women had accused the PHCN disconnecting the entire community, leaving the residents in perpetual darkness.

Leader of the women, Mrs. Victoria Bulus said they staged the protest to register their displeasure over the activities of the PHCN for plunging the whole community in total darkness over matters that no bearing on them.

Naratting the ordeal of the community, the community secretary, Mrs. Gyang Pwang said the community had embarked on n electrification project in December, 2009 and tasked every landlord N50,000 each for the execution of the project.

 "We were connected by the PHCN and have been paying our bills, but unfortunately, on 24th February, 2012 the same PHCN, New Nyanya disconnected us. Our crime was that we decided to disconnect two community members; Mr. Daniel Ameh and Obinna Okoye who despite entreaties from community members refused to pay the mandatory levy that every other person had paid. They went ahead and got connected.