Power Outage: Awoyaya community begs EKEDC for new transformer



Residents of Awoyaya in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, have called on the management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, to rescue them from unending breakdown and repairs of its faulty transformer.

They lamented that the development has severely crumbled business activities in the area, forcing them to rely on generators as their main source of electricity, while constantly billed monthly.

One of the residents  identified  Folashade said: “Frankly, we are fed up with the palliative repairs of the transformer. These measures have not brought about the needed solution. This is totally unfair. The transformer in question has been serving this area for a very long time, when about 20 percent of the present population lived here.

“What we need is a replacement, because each time they come to repair the transformer, it normally does not work for more than two weeks. Notwithstanding, we are been billed monthly regardless of the blackout which is not fair in its entirety.”   

Reacting, the General Manager, Corporate Communications, EKEDC, Godwin Idemudia, appealed to the residents for calm, adding that the company was putting in place structures and providing transformer to salvage the power crisis in the community.

Culled from Vanguard







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