Lagos community protests 18-month blackout

Residents of Maya Olorijo Estate successful the Ikorodu country of Lagos State, connected Monday, staged a peaceful protestation implicit a prolonged powerfulness outage that has persisted for astir 18 months.

The demonstrators said the extended blackout has disrupted economical activities, weakened livelihoods, and created terrible hardship wrong the community.

The protest, which progressive landlords and youths, saw participants march to the Ikeja Electric Business District successful the Alogba area, displaying placards and chanting successful unison to gully attraction to their plight.

Some of the placards bore messages specified as, “18 months successful darkness, sidesplitting Olorijo” and “18 months, nary airy for creditworthy customers, bring backmost our transformer.”

Speaking during the demonstration, Chairman of the Olorijo Community Development Association, Victor Ologhobo, explained that the situation began aft a transfor...