Residents of Okpoga, Idobe and Ichama districts of Okpokwu Local Government Areas of Benue State have every reason to smile in the new year following the completion and commissioning of the forty-kilometre-long Rural Electrification Project to bring light to the area for the first time in history.
Commissioning the electricity project State Governor Samuel Ortom described the lawmaker who attracted the project as one of Benue’s best in his campaign tagged “light up enone”.
For the first time in history, Ichama a rural farming community of Okpokwu local government area of the State and its adjoining communities where access to very basic facilities has remained a huge challenge now have a public power supply with its full benefits.
For these residents of Okpoga to Idobe through Akpakpa to Ichama it is a huge burden lifted.
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The celebration heightened as the State Governor Samuel Ortom represented by the deputy Benson Abounu commissions the 40-kilometre rural electrification project.
The federal government-assisted rural electrification project cost a total of 400 million naira.
Editor : Ena Agbanoma
