Lagos communities protest months-long blackout, barricade Ikeja Electric office

Residents of Waterfront Estate, Sekumade Estate and the NBC Community successful the Ebute axis of Ikorodu Local Government Area, Lagos State, connected Friday, embarked connected a peaceful protestation to gully attraction to a prolonged energy outage that has near their neighbourhoods successful acheronian for months.

The aggrieved residents marched to the Ikorodu Business District bureau of Ikeja Electric, wherever they blocked the entrance, disrupting question into and retired of the premises for respective hours.

Carrying placards bearing messages specified arsenic “IKEDC! You are meant to beryllium an cause of light, not darkness” and “Eight months without powerfulness is enough, reconstruct our electricity,” the protesters decried the hardship imposed connected households and businesses by the blackout.

They said powerfulness proviso to the 3 communities had been disconnected since August 2025 aft the lone transformer serving the country developed a responsibility and was neither repaired nor replaced.

Speaking during the protest, 1 of the residents, Moshood Aderibigbe, accused the energy organisation institution of repeatedly failing to honour assurances fixed to the communities.

“Before resorting to this protest, we held 2 meetings with Ikeja Electric officials implicit the faulty transformer, but thing factual was done. All we got were promises without action,” helium said.

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