LGA Gets Power Outage After Three Years

The Ibadan Electricity
Distribution Company (IBEDC) has promised that Ona-Ara Local Government Area of Oyo State would begin to enjoy power supply once again after three years of outage.
Managing Director of the Company, Mr Fortuna Leynes, gave the assurance during a ceremony to kick-start the rehabilitation of two 15MVA transformers at the Akanran Injection substation recently.
The Tide gathered that Onu Ara Local Government has not enjoyed power supply since the 2009 fuel subsidy protest nationwide during which some protesters set fire on the two transformers which are now being rehabilitated.
The Managing Director was quoted in a statement of saying that even though the problem was inherited, the company felt it was necessary to fix the affected transformers, a project he said would cost over N150 million.
He said, “The people have suffered, so also has the company. IBEDC, as we all know is just seven months old. We inherited this challenge.
But we believe that by the end of August, 2014 the people and the communities in Ona-Ara will start enjoying power supply.
“I will like to highlight a few things that need attention in order to ensure this new beginning and make a lasting positive impact on the socio-economic life of the area. As we know, a lot of changes have taken place in the last three years, new building, renovations and migrations have taken place. The new opportunities call for recapturing and enumeration of customers afresh.
He particularly noted that the situation requires a customer population data update as the past figure of thirty thousand customers was no longer tenable and appealed for the co-operation of everyone to enable the exercise work effectively.