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Lagos residents storm Ikeja Electric office, protest outage

Some residents of Onilekere, Onipetesi, Valley Estate, Santos Estate Phase I & II, Lagos State, thronged the headquarters of Ikeja Electric on Thursday to protest against frequent power outages, outrageous estimated billings, as well as the poor state of a substation transformer that feeds about 20 transformers in the four communities.

The protesters lamented that on the average, they had 125 hours electricity monthly, saying the problem had taken its toll on the people and commercial activities in the neighbourhoods.

They also displayed placards, some of which read, ‘11 months of darkness is inhuman and wickedness,’ ‘We can’t continue to pay for darkness,’ ‘Replacing 15MVA (substation) transformer with 7.5MVA is unacceptable,’ and ‘Ikeja Electric has gradually killed our businesses,’ among others.

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