Nigeria: Power Outage Claims Teenager
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
6 September 2008
Posted to the web 6 September 2008
Murjanatu Mohammed Abba
Kaduna
The day began just like any other day for the residents of Matazu close near Tudun Wada, Kaduna, on Tuesday, August 19. But before sunset, the residents were thrown into mourning as a 16-year-old Yakubu Hussein was electrocuted by a generator at his resident.
The residents told Weekly Trust that the incident took place when the late Hussein attempted switching from the generator to PHCN without switching off from the generator which led to his instant death.
Mrs. Hafsat, an eyewitness and the deceased's relation, said Hussein was barefooted when he attempted to change the source of light.
She said she was alerted after Hussein shouted her name, and before she could respond, he was already electrocuted.
Hafsat also said "the incident occurred around 9:10 pm. There was power failure, and then my husband put on the generator for us and left. As we were watching a movie together with the deceased, it started fluctuating and the deceased went outside to cover the generator with a zinc to protect it from getting wet. And minutes later as the rain persisted, he went back and switched-off the generator and even bid me goodnight and went away.
"Minutes later, Yakubu came back to my room and told me that the rain had subsided and that he wanted to finish the movie he had started watching. I did not object to that and he put on the generator again," she said.
According to Hafsat, not long after they started watching when PHCN restored light and "immediately, Yakubu went outside to put-off the generator. All of a sudden, I heard him shouting my name and I quickly rushed to him along with my neighbours but could not help him in any way as we were all perplexed and confused when we realised that a fuse of the generator was still in his hand.
"It was my mother in-law whom the deceased had been leaving with who was able to pull-out the fuse which in turn shocked her too. After that, we found out that he had died," Hafsat said.
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Weekly Trust gathered that the deceased died less than two weeks to his common entrance examination, as he started his primary school at the age of 10 when he was brought to stay with his cousin in Kaduna from Agasawa in Kano State.
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