Man Electrocuted to Death While "Helping" Power Company Repair Faulty Power Line

A middle-aged man, Jonathan Agwu,
was during the weekend electrocuted
to death while finding the fault of a
power line at Agba Abor Isu in Onicha
LAG of Ebonyi state.
According to VANGUARD, the man
went to jumper a high tension KVA
line that was isolated by Enugu
Electricity Distribution Company,
EDDC even as he joined the engineers
trace where there was fault.
“The man went to do our work; he
decided to turn himself into EDDC
staff by force by climbing up to
jumper line that was isolated by the
company to help them trace where
there is fault," the Public Relations
Officer of EDDC in Ebonyi, Mr.
Lazarus Chiedozie Onyearugbulam
said, stressing that the victim was not
a staff of the company.
“So he went to jumper it on his own, a
33KVA high tension line and
unfortunately he paid the ultimate
price”.
The deceased according to sources was
said to be a native of Umufu village,
Amanato in Isu but was not known to
be an EDDC staff in the state.