Some hoodlums have vandalised power station of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company at Nto-Udo Enwan, in the Ika Local Government Area, carting away armoured cables and transformer oil.
Residents of the area said the hoodlums came in the night and scaled through the fence to steal the cables and the oil.
The Secretary General, Nto-Udo Enwan Village Council, Boniface Josiah, said on Wednesday that the power station had not been put into use since it was built in 2007.
He stated that the community lacked almost all basic facilities ranging from potable water, accessible roads to electricity.
“There was a time government provided us with borehole, but it did not last up to five months.
“They also brought us transformers with weak poles, which collapsed after torrential rain. We have never benefitted from government,” he said.
The Commissioner for Rural Development, Mr. Ekong Sampson, who visited the area, said the community had been captured in the state’s master plan for rural development.
He condemned the rate at which government installations were being vandalised in rural communities.
He urged rural dwellers to see government property as their own.
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