Some furious youths of Obokun Local Government Area (LGA), Osun State, recently attacked the office of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) in Esa-Oke community inflicting severe injury on three officials of the power company. Reports revealed that the attack was aggravated by two days stretched interruption of electricity in the community. According to sources, the youths who were said to have been worried by the outage, during the attack chased the officials out of their office in the town, later caught up with them near Owamiran of Esa Oke’s palace and beat them up, using machetes and other dangerous weapons. It was further gathered that the angry youths broke into the company’s offices and vandalised it, carting away some personal effects belongings of the staff, along with some service wires. Reacting to the development, Osun region’s management of IBEDC, in a statement condemned the attack, and explained that the outage was as a result of the routine maintenance of their 132KVA line by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN. The company’s spokesperson, Kike Owoeye noted that supply was restored after the maintenance work had been completed and stressed that the exercise was necessary for quality and safe wheeling of energy as indicated by TCN. The company, however, expressed displeasure over actions of the youths, which left three of its staff injured with bruises after machete was used on them. The statement reads in part: “We reiterate that the outage was due to the maintenance procedure by the TCN in Osogbo which is not under the control of IBEDC as a distribution company. “The company has various channels of communication with which the customers can lodge their complaints for speedy attention. Sadly, none of these channels were explored before these youths unleashed terror on our staff: the Service Manager, Customer Relations Officer and the Technical Service Supervisor. “With this development, we have been forced to withdraw our services temporarily from Esa-Oke and its environs to prevent further damage to lives and property. We plead with all our esteemed customers in Osun state and across our franchise area for their understanding and cooperation.
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Posted: at 29-08-2016 11:25 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Slimchery at 29-08-2016 11:39 AM (7 years ago) (m)
good for them, they go dey bring bill and dey disconnect people from light wey dem nor dey gree give and after dem go carry ur wire go and you nor go see the wire again even if you pay because dem done sell am to another person corruption is just in every nigeria man
Posted: at 29-08-2016 11:39 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Slimchery at 29-08-2016 12:42 PM (7 years ago) (m)
if dem join all the hours wey houses dey use for naija light for a month com join the hours together turn am to day , you go see say dem nor dey even use light for 3 days from the 30 days and you want them to pay such bill at the end of the month and if they nor pay una go disconnect their light collect their wire go sell to another person, dem just start to beat una, dey go beat una tire
Posted: at 29-08-2016 12:42 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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