Peace Oladapo 
Amas, a father of two, was electrocuted at Ekeki Police Station on Azikoro Road in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, on Friday and died on a high-tension pole.
Amas, a non-staff member of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) who resides in the neighborhood, was on the pole connecting clients to the federal line before the incident that claimed his life occurred.
The deceased, from the Nembe Local Government Area, of the state, was said to have being stuck on the pole for hours before being rescued by PHCN workers.
According to an eyewitness, who gave his identity as Micheal Orubo, “Amas lives on our street, and most of the connection work in this area he attends to them, why has death come to him in such a way? He just left us where we were playing a chess game, and said he was coming back but never returned”
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“He was easygoing, who will care for the two kids he has left behind. The money he gets from these electric connections is what he manages to feed his family with. What manner of death is this, someone we were with throughout this period of rain, so he left to fix the connection immediately after the rain.”
Another eyewitness said, “He just passed me not more than five minutes, immediately after the rain stopped. The next thing I heard was people screaming, we rushed to the scene of the incident but we couldn’t help it, because he was wearing a belt so it held him tight to the pole, there was nothing the people could do because we were all scared and it was still raining”
“It took hours before PHCN people came and brought the lifeless body down from the pole. The mother has a shop close to where the incident happened, and when she heard about it, she hadn’t been herself since, she couldn’t even come out to see the body. People are consoling her now, very sad to know that he is dead.”
