Residents, mainly youths from the Oke-afa area and Diamond
Estate stormed the hall at the Samkoll Gardens venue uninvited raising placard
in protest, and marching round mounting their displeasure to the energy
distribution company.
In the Business Manager, IKEDC, Engr. Ifeanyichukwu
Ifeacho’s address delivered before the protest highjack, he acknowledged that
the quality of services has not hit the expected levels, since some area are
suffering from lack of energy supply for days.
He said, “ it is worthy of note that our quality of service has not hit the
most expected level as there were numbers of occasions when some areas suffer
from lack of electricity supply for hours, days and weeks.”
Ifeacho, however, attributed disruption to energy supply to
natural occurrences and activates of vandals that has not been put under check.
On the plans of the company to improve power supply, the
power manger informed of the immediate plan to step up the transformer at
Ejigbo and other areas.
“ I must let you know
that the problematic 30M.V.A transformer in Ejigbo whose capacity weight can no
longer carry the now expansive network has been replaced with 100M.V.A and will
be commission by month end.
“I must confess to you that the good times are here already.
The management procured some transformers to replace the failed ones at the
following locations recently…the long time benefits of these laudable projects
cannot be over-emphasized,” he said concluding that he believes the communities
will reciprocate these gestures by paying their bills promptly.
Engr. Ifeacho, afterwards, informed the customers that they
still have huge debts profiles, which most customer have refused to pay under
the guise that power supply has not improved.
According to him, “we still have a debt profile of 56
million naira and NON MD- of over 3 billion. Most customers have come under the
cover of erratic power supply and have over
