Wednesday, July 24, 2013



An electrician was electrocuted on a PHCN pole in Jos after he tried to change the supply into his shop to a phase with more regular supply. The electrician whose name is Chukwuebuka Eze met his untimely death as fate didn’t shine luck to him on that fateful day.


While he was trying to change the supply to his shop to a more regular phase, PHCN restored electricity supply to the area and Chukwuebuka didn’t survive the extreme shock. The tragic incident occurred at about 1:00p.m yesterday, Tuesday 23rd of July, 2013.

An eyewitness (who was also a neighbour) told Nigerian Tribune that his shirt caught fire when the supply was restored and he was glued to the pole. People within the vicinity later noticed the sparks and Eze’s clothes on fire but could not rescue the young igbo man.

It took the efforts of PHCN staffs and some other people before he was brought down from the pole. His corpse was later taken to the mortuary by officials of PHCN and police.

This is another tragic evidence of the saying that says electricity is a good servant but a bad master. Safety is of utmost importance while working with electric installations because you may not have the opportunity to make another mistake if you make one. If you’re able to, you’re one of the few lucky ones.

4 comments:

  1. Now this is very bad, this is why we always advice other future technicians to take safety as outermost priority.

    May his soul R.I.P though

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    1. Yeah it's very important. Safety first, there's nothing we can do without life.

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