Solar Street Lights Deploment

Solar-powered Street Light In Yenagoa, Transforms Capital, Curbs Violence. In Bayelsa, solar powered street lights have become a source of relief and safety to residents of Yenagoa, the state capital. This new development has also brought respite to various communities in the Eight local government areas.

Unlike in the past, where mounted solar street lights have become obsolete and a relic of failure of past administrations, however the only difference is they are back and working this time around, providing light to residents and night life business owners.

Despite the possible high cost of procurement and installation of solar powered lights, some residents have said the price paid for solar lights cannot be compared to the number of deaths, damages, crime and injuries inflicted on innocent residents by hoodlums in the past years under the cover of darkness. On the 10th of November, 2018, suspected cultists, under the cover of darkness, killed a teenager in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in a bid to snatch her mobile phone. The 16-year-old girl, Siefa Fred, a 100 level student of the state-owned Niger Delta University (NDU) was shot dead while running an errand for her mother. Like late Seifa, many other heinous crimes are committed in the state capital in the past few years due to lack of light.