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Fallen GPL live wires cause anxiety for Lusignan residents
For the past three months Bibi Amena Khan and her family have been forced to keep out of their backyard. Why? Because Guyana Power and Light has been negligent in removing some live wires that have fallen in their Lusignan Railway Embankment residence.
Khan told Kaieteur News that she has reported the matter to the power company but “all they do is come and look at it and gone.”
“They always say they gun look into it and gun come back,” she said adding that the last time the power company workers visited her residence was two weeks ago.
Khan’s husband bravely holds up the wires during a power outage yesterday.
According to Khan the GPL employees usually tell her that once people in the area are getting electricity, they do not have to remove the wires.
This newspaper visited Khan’s residence only to find that thick bush had covered a portion of the wires, since the family has been unable to weed their yard out of fear of coming into contact with the wires.
To compound the issue, Khan said that her neighbours have been stealing electricity and this has been creating nervous moments for her.
“You could see de wire sparking every time dem put on something; all we light does deh blinking. Me nah care where dem get current from but me want de wire move,” she stressed.
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