RE: NOTIFICATION OF POWER DISRUPTION/OUTAGE IN ADO-EKITI AND AKURE FOR TWO MONTHS (JULY, AUGUST 2024) FOR NINE HOURS EACH DAY (8.00AM TO 5.00PM)
Gentlemen:
Our attention has been called to public notifications, both in print and in jingles in English and in Yoruba, of the intention of BEDC under advice by TCN to disrupt power supply to the transmission stations in Akure and Ado-Ekiti – and in effect to adversely affect the Ekiti State and Ondo State areas – for nine hours each day (8.00am to 5.00pm) from July 1, 2024 to August 31,
2024.
2. No direct notification/communication was made to the Ekiti State Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Utilities (MIPU) on this matter, nor was approval sought and obtained from the Ekiti State Electricity Regulatory Bureau (EKSERB), saddled by law with the full authority to regulate the electricity industry in Ekiti State.
3. The planned disruption of electricity for three-eighths of each day for sixty-two days, amounting to five hundred and fifty-eight hours (558) total and
twenty-three days of outage in these two months amounts to an unacceptable economic, financial and social price to be paid by the citizens of Ekiti State, and we totally reject such a plan.
4. Consequently, we ask for an immediate suspension of the plan, while we call for an emergency meeting with the regional heads of TCN, BEDC and NERC at 12:00 noon Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at the Office of the Honourable Commissioner, MIPU, The Secretariat, Ado-Ekiti, in order to devise an alternative and far less adverse plan to achieve the same stated aims, namely “to carry out critical maintenance work on the 132KV Akure Osogbo transmission line…(and) the installation of Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) and
other activities.”
5. We request prompt attention to this matter while we are eager to work collaboratively toward a sustainable solution that will benefit both citizens of
the State and the Ekiti State Electricity Supply Industry.
In the time being, accept our highest regards.
Sincerely:
Professor Mobolaji E. Aluko
Honourable Commissioner, MIPU
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