Day 4 of the Campaign to rebuild bunu kingdom, it is a call for all not only the Bunu born.
When Thomas Alva Edison invented the Electricity, his intention was to illuminate the world. Hardly did he know that several centuries later, a district of 40 towns and villages like Bunu would still grope in utter darkness. Unfortunately today in Bunu District of Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria, this is our reality!
Everything created by God is powered by life and renewed by Solar Energy. But everything ever invented by man is powered by electricity.
If electricity guarantees comfort, then Bunu people have been unjustifiably robbed of a comfortable life for about six decades since the existence of an independent Nigeria.
If life without light is hell, then Bunu, against her own wish, has been forced to live in this man-made hell of darkness for the better part of modern history!!!
Bunu people are forced to live in the Stone Age: using earthen lamps and lanterns to provide illumination and having to depend on sunlight to preserve their farm produce.
And because we did not engineer our own pains, nor did we devise our own abandonment and relegation, we have had to live with this stigma and endure the mockery of our neighbours who refer to us malignly as Bunu the Dark World!
In the days of Adamu Atta, Sunday Awoniyi and Sunday Daniyan, Bunu was brighter because our District was lighted by Hope. Hope that someday soon, in 10, 20 or 30 years, Bunu District would be connected and illuminated by National Electric Power Authority. But today, it’s been 50 years and all we have to tell is a Dark Story.
Having been recklessly abandoned by past administrations, and our hope being replaced with despair, the Bunu story is that of The Dark, The Darker!!!
Of the 40 towns and villages in Bunu District, only three has electricity by proxy.
#Enough is Enough!
– Olu Majek writes from Bunu.
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