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Ambode’s inauguration: Tears, as Badagry youths in Lagos lament for 16yrs without electricity

LAST Friday, while thousands of Lagosians came out en masse at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos to celebrate the inauguration of Akinwunmi Ambode as the 14th  Governor of Lagos State, it was tears for youths of Gbaji-Seme, a border community in Badagry West Local  Council Development Area of Lagos State, as they lamented lack of electricity for 16 years.
According to the youths, who stormed the inauguration venue in their hundreds, under the umbrella of Gbaji-Seme Border Youth Initiative (GSBYI), the community with over 30 villages and a population of about 100, 000 people, has been in perpetual darkness since 1999.
The electricity crisis resulted from a devastating rainstorm which  destroyed almost all the electric polls and transformers that connected the villages to the national grid.
Since then they said,  promises by successive administrations at the local, state and federal levels to fix the problem have gone unfulfilled.