Senator Wades Into DISCO, Sapele Residents’ Electricity Crisis

The Senator representing Delta Central in the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has waded into the lingering crisis between the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) and residents of  Sapele in Delta State with a view to finding solution to it.
A source said the senator arrived the Sapele-Okpe community town hall with his aides last week and addressed community leaders, youths, women group and other stakeholders and promised them that he would do every thing possible to resolve the problem.
He said “you have got a good case, so let’s see how it goes. I want you to know that we feel your pain. I understand your pain. We are in this together.”
The senator who said, he was in town on a fact finding mission explained to the crowd how the issue first go to him.
He said, “when I first heard of the protest, I told myself that I should be championing this cause as these are my people, so I reached out to the organisers and requested a petition to be written to the Senate and as I speak to you, I have presented the petition on the floor of the house”. According to him, within weeks, the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges will look into the petition of the people.
It could be recalled that since last year, the people of Sapele have been protecting the epileptic power supply and high cost of energy tariff which has led to series of meetings aimed at proffering solution but to no avail.
The community people have vowed to continue with the protest if nothing was done to solve the energy problem facing them.