Lafia Community Storms AEDC To Protest 8 Months Power Outage
After about eight months of living in darkness, residents of Ungwar Yazawa community in Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Monday took the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) Head Office in Lafia by storm to express their displeasure.
Protesting what they described as a perennial power outage in the area, the community members said their action was inevitable because the AEDC has continued to show an absolute lack of care and non-commitment in addressing their plight
Spokesperson of the community, Shuibu Zanwa-Buba, told newsmen during the protest march that they had been without electricity supply for over eight months running, noting that the electricity transformer in the area has been down over eight months back with the people approaching the Nasarawa State Government for assistance and eventually got a new one.
According to him; āWhen the transformer got bad, we wrote to Gov. Abdullahi Sule and he graciously approved and released the electricity transformer to us for over two months now, but AEDC has refused to connect us.
āAEDC seems to be deliberately working against the interest of the community for some reasons best known to it.ā
He appealed to Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to call AEDC to order considering the untold hardship the people of the community have been passing through.
In her response, the Human Resources Manager of AEDC, Hajiya Zainab Ibrahim, appealed for calm with a promise that the transformer would be powered before the close of work on Monday. – NAN