GHETTO NOW SPENDS OVER 200 DAYS IN DARKNESS
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
The shanty neighborhood of the busy College Road in Ifako
Ijaiye area of Lagos,Nigeria called Idiagbon is now spending over at least over
200 days of complete darkness due to the epileptic electricity supply from the utility
provider,Ikeja Electricity Distribution
Company .
Checks by The News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia in
Lagos,Nigeria suggests that the residents of the area had since grown tired of
the endless excuse given by the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company over the unfortunate situation.
A source who spoke to this reporter revealed that there were at least over 200 houses within the shanty with such streets like
Adeshina, Alhaji Quadri,Adeeko all in utter darkness since February,2016.
A resident, Mr Lanre Arogundade told this reporter that this year alone
residents had mobilized themselves on 2 different occasions to protest this grave anomaly but instead of the
situation getting better things had gotten worse.
A source also informed this reporter as at press time that the
perennial darkness had not stopped the
power sector company from collecting their tariffs.
The source pointed out that an average of N6,000 to N7,000
was collected on the average every month from each of the over 200 houses in
the shanty .
In a related issue,Yet another source who lives in the area
told this reporter that she will not disagree with whoever says that they have not had power for over 200 days as
she had stopped using her fridge now altogether.
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