With help from the Niger Delta Electricity Holding Company (NDPHC), the management of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has announced plans to add 100 MW of power to the Lekki axis.
During Friday’s Stakeholders Town Hall Meeting in Lekki, Lagos, EKEDC Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Dr. Tinuade Sanda made the promise.
She said that the business has signed a bilateral agreement to sell up to 100 MW of power made by NDPHC in order to better serve clients in the area.
The company’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Gbadebo Akinyode, argued on Sanda’s behalf that the 100mw was not the same as the energy from the national grid.
“The additional energy from the NDPHC and allocation from the national grid will improve the electricity supply in Lekki and its environs.
“The company will also ensure proper upgrading of the network; this is through realignment of the network such that power supply will be available for everyone.
“There is no point in having so much power in an area and in another area, there will be much deficiency.
“We have to find a way of balancing it within the existing infrastructure on the ground. We are doing all these to improve supply,” she said.
Customers in the Lekki axis were advised by Sanda to report any incidents of energy theft.
“We need to address energy theft in our neighbourhood by reporting them to the nearest EKEDC office.
“Energy theft constrains the company to have access to fund to build more infrastructure that will be beneficial to the customers,” she said.
Sanda remarked that the objective of the meeting was to interact with consumers in order to learn how to serve them better, and she praised the large turnout.
In addition, EKEDC’s Chief Technical Officer, Mr. Oluwafemi Olaoye, asked customers to notify the firm if they experience problems with their electricity or transformers.
The corporation, he explained, is responsible for replacing any broken transformers or metres.
He pushed for the clients to apply for a ready metre and mentioned that the metres were available for a particular price.
Olaoye urged the public to treat the company’s employees as allies rather than targets when they were performing official obligations.
However, some locals have criticised the corporation for not supplying enough power, while others have praised it.
Maroko local Mr. Olakunle Adebayo has petitioned the corporation to upgrade the electricity in his neighbourhood.
“We are being marginalised in our area because we see supply in other areas when we have outage,” Adebayo said.
Mr. Lawal Ishola of Agungi, Lekki, has been very pleased with the company’s consistent power service for the past two months.
But according to Alhaji Musediku Ayinde, chairman of the Liafiaji, Okun-Aja Community Development Association, the area has been without electricity for four months.
He demanded that the issue be resolved by the company’s management.
