Nigeria: Blackout - Electric Power Shocks Political Power in Sokoto

5 November 2012

Sokoto is thrown into darkness following a strike action by electricity workers protesting the alleged flogging of one of their officials by Governor Aliyu Wamakko.

Whatever it is that transpired between Governor Aliyu Wamakko and Moses Osigwe, the Business Manager of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN in the Gwuiwa district was without the knowledge of the majority of the people of Sokoto State.

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