In his judgment, Muhammed absolved the Regional Manager AEDC, Obadaki, the second defendant of any complicity.
A Chief Magistrate in Kogi State, Tanko Muhammed, has sentenced a staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, James Olayemi, to six months in prison over unlawful disconnection of electricity supply to a customer’s house in Lokoja, the state capital.
The duo had allegedly committed the offence contrary to Regulations 5 and 11 of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission Connection And Disconnection Procedures for Electricity Services 2007 and punishable under Section 94 of the electric power sector reform Act 2005. Aruwa noted that the defendants, on March 10, 2020, alongside others still at large, did “maliciously and unlawfully disconnect the electricity supply to metre with Account number 715718350 supplying electricity to the building being occupied by the complainant No 1, NIWA Quarters, Lokoja, Kogi State”.
“To wit: Unlawful disconnection of electricity supply and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 97 of the Penal Code, Laws of Kogi State.”
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