By Ibrahim Oyewale A magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State, has sentenced a Staff of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), Mr. James Olayemi, to six months imprisonment with an op…
A magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State, has sentenced a Staff of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company , Mr. James Olayemi, to six months imprisonment with an option of Fine N50,000 for unlawful disconnection of electricity supply to a customer’s house in Lokoja, the state capital.
The duo had allegedly committed offences 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 electric power sector reform Act 2005. The first information report read in part: “That you and others now at large on the 10th March, 2020 within the Magisterial District of this court, did conspire amongst yourselves to commit felony.
He urged the court to take cognisance of Regulation 10 of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, Connection and Disconnection Procedures of Electricity Services, 2007. In his judgement , the chief magistrate absolved the Regional Manager AEDC, Mr. Lamidi Obadaki, who is the second defendant in this case of any complicity on two counts charges of criminal conspiracy and unlawful disconnection of supply was therefore discharged and acquitted , stressing that from evidence before him there was no link between him and the criminal activities of the first defendant.
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