Residents of Lokoja native authorities space, Kogi State capital on Tuesday staged a peaceable protest to the Abuja Electrical energy Distribution Firm (AEDC) Space workplace to current their complaints on the fixed energy outage and epileptic energy provide within the State.
The aggrieved residents requested the corporate to expedite motion on the poor provide, as the dearth of energy was crippling companies within the state.
The protesters who have been led by the chairman of a stress group underneath the aegis of ‘Mild up Motion’, Mallam Illiasu Zakari lamented that that they had been experiencing outages earlier than the celebration of Christmas and New 12 months to the current time and AEDC did nothing about it.
The group additionally demanded an finish to outrageous billing by the Abuja Electrical energy Distribution Firm in Kogi State.
The group added that “Failure to appropriate the abnormalities or complaints enumerated will go away us with no alternative however to mobilize for the following part of those calls for. Sufficient of AEDC surcharging us and placing the motion in dangerous mild within the minds of the general public whereas reneging on all agreements reached in earlier engagements.”
They displayed placards with inscriptions reminiscent of: “We’re uninterested in frequent energy outage, epileptic energy provide in Lokoja and its environs”, “AEDC ought to give us mild to spice up our financial fortunes within the state.” cease the outrageous billings”.
One of many protesters, Inuwa Isa, stated electrical energy was not at all times obtainable, even earlier than the celebration of Christmas and New 12 months, as residents have been at all times left in darkness.
The Space Supervisor of AEDC in Lokoja, Emmanuel Ajibogun, who attended to the aggrieved residents counseled the protesters for his or her peaceable conduct and promised to look into their grievances.
He disclosed {that a} roundtable dialogue can be held with the management of the group as quickly as attainable.
Probably the most affected are residents, iron fabricators, petty merchants, eating places and bars, sachet water sellers who complained of poor gross sales.