Ibadan DISCO Assures Of Constant Power Supply

The Managing
Director of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IEDC), Mr. Fortunato Leynes, has assured the firm’s numerous customers of improved power supply.
Speaking to newsmen after an interaction with the company’s customers in its areas of operation in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Leynes said the electricity company has suffered untold theft and damage to its transformers, cables and feeder pillars, oil and other line materials.
He said the aftermath of these acts of vandalism are total blackout to the company’s customers, stressing that it also affects the firm in terms of huge losses in revenue.
He said that power generation by the company had dropped due to the efforts of some consumers who attempted to bypass the approved cable voute.
According to him, the firm is not unaware of the menace of tempering with its metres, diversion of wires from the metres and running of same through ceilings, all effectively bypassing their electric metres.
He said the act are offences punishable by law, adding that the electricity firm had spent huge resources to rehabilitate the damaged electrical materials in order to improve electricity generation within its areas of operations.
Leynes explained that the fixed service charge by the electricity generating companies in the country was approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to enable all electricity distribution companies to repair service and maintain their installations and other equipment.
The IEDC’s areas of operations cover Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti, Osun, parts of Kwara and Kogi States.