Enugu: Owner of a barbershop was electrocuted while damaging transformer

The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company says that Tochu Onah, the owner of a barbershop, was killed by electricity when he broke into a transformer over the weekend.

The event happened on Saturday in the Ede-Oballa neighbourhood of Enugu State’s Nsukka Local Government Area, where the body of the deceased was discovered inside the grounds of an EEDC transformer.

According to reports, the deceased, Onah, aka Toshiba, was an Ede-Oballa native who ran a barbershop up until the unfortunate event.

The Head of Corporate Communications for EEDC, Mr. Emeka Ezeh, informed journalists in Enugu of this event on Sunday. He described the tragedy as regrettable and said that it had taken the young man’s life.

Ezeh thought back to all the vandalism the business had seen the year before. This had hurt both the business’s income and the quality of service it gave to its customers.

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Following the vandalism of a transformer in the same Ede-Oballa village in November last year, Ezeh recalled an incident in which members of the community accused EEDC staff directly of sabotage, claiming that “they are the ones who understand electricity.”

He added that the dead, a native of the community who, according to reports, ran a barbershop, had never been connected to anything to do with energy, much less worked for EEDC, “happens to be one of their own.”

The EEDC sends condolences to the family of the person who died and hopes that this will stop other people from trying to cause trouble.