Power Outage: Residents cries out to EKEDC

Residents of Awoyaya in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, have again called on the management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, to rescue them from unending break down and repairs of it bad transformer.

The residents lamented that the development have severely crumbled business activities in the area, forcing them to rely on generators as their main source of electricity.

One of the residents who prefers to be address as Kenneth said: “Honestly, 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.”

Reacting, the General Manager, Corporate Communications, EKEDC, Godwin Idemudia, appealed to the residents to be calm. He said the company was putting in place structures as well as providing transformer to salvage the power crisis in the community.