Ugborodo community, Chevron at loggerheads over damaged transformer

BY AUSTIN  OGWUDA

ASABA—THERE is uneasy calm in Ugborodo community, in Warri South- West Local Government Area of Delta State, where Chevron Nigeria Limited’s tank farm is located, as women and youths of the community are spoiling for a show down with the oil firm over alleged refusal to fix a damaged transformer that had kept the community without electricity in the past three months.

Vanguard gathered that the people are particularly aggrieved due to the fact that the member representing the area in the state House of Assembly, Mr. Daniel Mayuku, had already provided another transformer, which Chevron allegedly refused their engineers to mount.

Contacted,  Mayuku said,  “the host community has been without light for the past three months due to the break down of the transformer.”