Lagos community threatens Ikeja Electric with N100m suit over bad transformer vanguardnews
— Ikeja Electric officialA community in Lagos is ready to take Ikeja Electric Distribution Company, IKEDC, to court over four months of total blackout and “insensitivity to our plight after years of estimated billings.” A 22-year-old transformer is in the heart of the impending legal clash.
But they were just about 200 residents then. 12 years later, in 2010, load shedding began. The 13 streets of about 5,000 households now take turns getting connected to the transformer.“Cumulatively, we cannot boast of five days of power in a month,” Mr. Kayode Adeolokun, the Chairman of Liberty CDA and Alhaji Gbadamosi B. A., Chairman of Oladunmoye Transformer Committee, told“Every now and then, the transformer breaks down. It cost us money to bring IKEDC personnel to come and repair it.
“So we said enough is enough and asked to be disconnected until a relief transformer is supplied. So for over four months we have been in total darkness, with IKEDC displaying insensitivity.The last of the series of letters the CDA wrote IKEDC, dated June 24, 2020, made available toIn it, the residents drew the attention of IKEDC to the issue of a relief transformer, which had dragged for years.
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