Eko DISCO explains worsening power blackout in Lagos

Saturday, February 27, 2016 1:52 pm

*Worst hit areas are: Surulere, Lekki, Ajah, Ibeju, Mushin, Apapa, Yaba

electricity generation has dropped drastically, Eko DISCO says

The management of EKo Electricity Distribution Plc. (EKEDP) said that the power supply instability within its network was due to inadequate bulk electricity load allocated to the company from the national grid.

This is contained in a statement issued by the Head of Corporate Communications of the company, Mr Godwin Idemudia, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos.

He said that the company had repeatedly given reasons for the current power rationing and intermittent outage being experienced in areas under its coverage in the past few weeks.

Idemudia said that the outages emanated from a drop in the national generation level as a result of incessant acts of vandalism on gas pipelines and transmission towers.

“The situation was not limited to Eko Electricity Distribution Company coverage areas alone since the problem has to do with low generation level. The situation has led to acute power rationing in all areas within the company’s operational territory,’’ he added.

Idemudia said that the outages emanated from a drop in the national generation level as a result of incessant acts of vandalism on gas pipelines and transmission towers. The situation was not limited to Eko Electricity Distribution Company coverage areas alone since the problem has to do with low generation level.

According to the spokesman the areas worst hit by the resultant power rationing include Surulere, Lekki, Ajah, Ibeju, Mushin, Apapa, Yaba and their environs.

Idemudia appealed to customers to bear with the situation, assuring that the company was doing its best to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of electricity to all customers, pending the time there would be improvement.

He said that the company’s customer help lines would be available 24 hour to receive complaints from customers and attend to the problems.

Idemudia said that customers having localised faults outside the general power rationing should contact the customer care unit of the business district covering their areas or the central customer care centre at Marina.

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3 Comments

dollarbill4life says:

May 12, 2016 at 8:24 pm

Beyond shameful that a nation with oil and gold forces its people to live like this.

May Martins says:

February 27, 2016 at 8:53 pm

It is only in a country like ours that a service provider will just be informing customers of epileptic supply after four weeks of blackout! Where on earth will this sort of insanity take place? My EKOdisco, please you can keep the explanation to yourself as it is already too late to rescue spilt milk.

bayuse says:

February 27, 2016 at 7:10 pm

EKO DISCO or EKEDP or whatever fancy name you call yourself, you ought to be ashamed that you are just informing your customers about your problems after more than three weeks of constant blackout. As power distributors, you need to inform the Ministry of Power Failure that Nigerians cannot get electricity if we do not dismantle the national grid first. It is the big problem making seamless power supply impossible.