MEMBERS of Prestige Community Development Association (CDA) in Heritage Estate, Isuti Road, Egan-Igando, in the Igando-Ikotun LCDA of Alimosho LGA, have appealed to the Ikeja Electric Distribution Company to fulfil its promise of providing them with a relief transformer.
According to media reports, the community had, since 2016, written to the company to end their agony of low current supply and poor energy allocation to the Isuti area of Egan.
After several letters, visits to Ikeja Electric, and interventions of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the community was promised a relief transformer.
“When engineers from Ikeja Electric came, they said the transformer is overloaded and they promised to provide us with a relief transformer. We immediately provided a place for it to be installed and they certified it.
“When they failed to provide the transformer, we approached Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA) for mediation. The first time we met IE at the agency, they told us we have been shortlisted for a transformer. The second time the agency called us in January 2022, the company said they just got delivery of 120 transformers and they promised to give us one. But we didn’t hear from them.
“Again in May 2022, we met at LASCOPA and after much pressure from the General Manager, LASCOPA, Mr Solebo Afolabi, IE promised us two weeks. From that period till now, we have not heard from them again. We are suffering and there is no light. Whenever they bring light, it is either too low or we are cut off.
“Though IE has upgraded its substation at Igando, yet we are still suffering. The supply is too poor averaging two hours per week. The days when there is no electricity are more than the days when we have supply. Yet they are billing us on estimated bills every month,” they narrated.
The community then appealed to the electricity company to fulfil its promise by providing the relief transformer before the end of the year and to also improve the power supply to the area.
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