Generator Fumes Kill Six Varsity Students in Bayelsa

Six university undergraduates have lost their lives to fume of a standby electricity generator in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital.

The tragic incident occurred on Saturday morning inside a music studio at transformer road in Amrata axis of the city.

Residents said most of the victims were students of the Niger Delta University who are into music recording business to support their education.

One of the student’s identified as Akpos Bara Kubo was said to own the studio.

The students who worked overnight in the studio, were said to have slept off, without putting off the generator, whose fume was suspected to have chocked them to death.

Police have cordoned off the shop and evacuated their bodies to a hospital in the state.

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Asamonye lamented the situation in Bayelsa State where the electricity distribution company would only bring power when they wanted to collect bills and take it away shortly after customers had paid their bills.

He said, Both the federal and state governments have failed us. If there was a public power supply, maybe these people wouldn’t have lost their lives in this circumstance.

Seven able-bodied young men just died like that because of the failure of government. The most annoying thing is that tomorrow, the PHED officials will come with a ladder to disconnect the light that they are not supplying. How can people be spending their money on fuelling generators despite the current hardship in Nigeria even after paying bills?

Another resident, Joy Reuben, said the neighbourhood woke up on Tuesday morning to witness the tragic incident and called on the state government to ensure that there was adequate power supply in the state so that the citizens would not be allowed to die in such circumstances again.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Musa Muhammed, though promised to find out and call back, never did that as of the time of filing this report.