By Dayo Johnson

AKURE — ANGRY youths, weekend, protested, against 10 years of power outage in the South Senatorial District of Ondo State.

They equally lamented the marginalization of the riverine area by the state government.

The youths, under the aegis of Ilaje Advancement Forum, IAF, stormed Gbokoda area of the state chanting ‘No light, no election’, disrupting both commercial and vehicular movement.

They displayed placards that read: ‘Ilaje: enough is enough; What offence has Ilaje people committed; Ondo State government has failed us; OSOPADEC is fake, NDDC is fraud; The Federal Government has failed in service delivery, Our leaders are rogues; No light, no election’, among others.

The co-convener of the Forum, Tokunbo Ehinmowo, said: “IAF is a mass movement of the Ilaje people to bring about progressive change in Ilaje land. The unavailability of power supply has plunged the people into untold hardship for the past 10 years. In the last 10 years, there has not been electricity in all our communities and this has meted untold hardship on us. The artisans can no longer work, businesses are collapsing and life has become so unbearable for us.”

Another member of the group, Oluwajuwon Ogunbiyi, said: “We are the local government producing the largest chunk of money to the Federal Government through our oil resources.” We surrender everything we have for the government under social contract to take care of us.”

Also, the Yeye Oge of Igbokoda, Mrs Stella Odunnuga and Mr Adekunle Odusola, said their representatives to the oil companies have failed in their responsibilities to the people, using public fund to enrich themselves and cronies.

Odusola said: “Our governments, at all levels, are fake; especially the Ondo State government. We are the hen laying the golden egg for this state and nation at large th