Residents to Sanwolu: Listen to our agitation! We are being maltreated by the electricity distribution companies
Residents to Sanwolu: Listen to our agitation! We are being maltreated by the electricity distribution companies
The Residents of Harmony Community Development Association, Mosan-Okunola Area of Alimosho Local government are appealing to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwolu to ensure his administration listen to the agitation of people over the illtreatment and extortation of electricity distribution companies in the state.
They urged the governor to make it a point of duty to see to the outrageous bills by the electricity companies without power supply.
The residents described electricity distribution companies as one of the major threats affecting the economic growth of Lagos State and Nigeria at large.
The residents spoke while protesting against the sudden black out in the community which was a deliberate attempt by the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC).
The black out, according to them was a result of a supposed confrontation between the staffs of IKEDC and hoodlums in the area when the company's employees came for an operation at Okiki house located at No,12 Wole Omo-Osho Street, Egbeda.
According to the occupants of the building, several letters has been sent to IKEDC notifying them that the building is no longer for hotel but residential and that the outrageous billing to be corrected but to no effect to as the bill increases every month.
The company, according to them instead of listening to the plights switched off the whole community's transformer and put everybody in the darkeness for a disagreement between it and a customers which the community described as embarrassing, unethical and total injustice despite their prompt monthly payment of elecricity bills to the company.
It was learnt that the community had written several letters for the reactivation of the community transformer but all to no avail.
The Community Development Association (CDA) Secretary, Mr. Dayo Onadele, said it is totally absurd and unprofessional for IKEDC to operate and maltreat their customers despite the outrageous bills paid every month, adding that the company is punishing a whole community instead of resolving pending issues with the owner of the building and that legitimate means shall be deployed to ensure justice is done."
According to Mr. Adegbayi Okiki , the owner of the property " the building was formally an hotel but it folded up about five years ago. Series of letters has been written to Ikeja electric plc as a formal notification to the changes and conversion to residential and purposely to correct the billing method and the withdrawal of M.D meter . As I speak nothing has been done."
"I had complained and protested severally to the Business Manager, IKEDC, Akowonjo Branch and Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Alausa Unit, with no fruitful results regarding the irrational bills bringing over the years to my property in the name of Okiki Hotel now residential."
" None of the occupants of my building had any altercations or physical confrontations with the company's Ikeja staffs." he concluded.
The Residents of Harmony Community Development Association, Mosan-Okunola Area of Alimosho Local government are appealing to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwolu to ensure his administration listen to the agitation of people over the illtreatment and extortation of electricity distribution companies in the state.
The residents described electricity distribution companies as one of the major threats affecting the economic growth of Lagos State and Nigeria at large.
The residents spoke while protesting against the sudden black out in the community which was a deliberate attempt by the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC).
The black out, according to them was a result of a supposed confrontation between the staffs of IKEDC and hoodlums in the area when the company's employees came for an operation at Okiki house located at No,12 Wole Omo-Osho Street, Egbeda.
According to the occupants of the building, several letters has been sent to IKEDC notifying them that the building is no longer for hotel but residential and that the outrageous billing to be corrected but to no effect to as the bill increases every month.
The company, according to them instead of listening to the plights switched off the whole community's transformer and put everybody in the darkeness for a disagreement between it and a customers which the community described as embarrassing, unethical and total injustice despite their prompt monthly payment of elecricity bills to the company.
It was learnt that the community had written several letters for the reactivation of the community transformer but all to no avail.
The Community Development Association (CDA) Secretary, Mr. Dayo Onadele, said it is totally absurd and unprofessional for IKEDC to operate and maltreat their customers despite the outrageous bills paid every month, adding that the company is punishing a whole community instead of resolving pending issues with the owner of the building and that legitimate means shall be deployed to ensure justice is done."
According to Mr. Adegbayi Okiki , the owner of the property " the building was formally an hotel but it folded up about five years ago. Series of letters has been written to Ikeja electric plc as a formal notification to the changes and conversion to residential and purposely to correct the billing method and the withdrawal of M.D meter . As I speak nothing has been done."
"I had complained and protested severally to the Business Manager, IKEDC, Akowonjo Branch and Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Alausa Unit, with no fruitful results regarding the irrational bills bringing over the years to my property in the name of Okiki Hotel now residential."
" None of the occupants of my building had any altercations or physical confrontations with the company's Ikeja staffs." he concluded.
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