Erinjiyan Ekiti in Ekiti west local government has continued to receive different calibers of people, Government officials and other stakeholders following a video clip that went viral on how a young man from the town, Ayomide Oladeji generated electricity from stones.
This had since remained a mystery to a lot of people but since electricity remained a serious issue of concern, our correspondent Busuyi Ogidiolu finds out the mysteries surrounding the discovery.
During an interaction with the twenty one year old young man who came up with the invention, Ayomide Oladeji, the two stones that produced the electricity were said to be of male and female type which act as negative and positive outputs.
The SS1 school drop-out, who said the stones could only be recognized through native intelligence, begged government for assistance so as to do more inventions to promote the nation’s economy.
Although there is a battery inside the house that is connected to the stones through cables, the surprising thing is that, immediately the stone is removed, the light will go off.
This could be why some of the residents in the area including a corp member, Mr David Bassey is appealing to government to assist the young man most especially to attend technical schools to boost his knowledge on electrical inventions.
In the meantime, government seems not to belief in the electricity invention, as the Special Adviser to Ekiti State Governor on infrastructural and public Utilities, Professor Bolaji Aluko faulted the claims, saying that the young man had used lithium batteries joined together with masking tape to produce electricity and not from the stones.
It was however the opinion of those who have seen the invention on social media and in Erijiyan Ekiti, the hometown of the young man that he needed to be assited and encouraged to do more.
It could be recalled that in time past, there had been similar discovery on electricity in many parts of Nigeria while there was also a report of a young school leaver from the eastern part of the country, who manufactured an aircraft that could fly at least a kilometer but political class had been alleged to have turned deaf ear to promotion of these innovations due to reasons best known to them.
Busuyi Ogidiolu.
