Power supply disruption in Abuja After invasion of AEDC’s Maitama station by land grabbers

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, said it regretted to pass customers successful Maitama, Abuja, and surrounding areas that it is presently incapable to proviso energy from its C2 Maitama Substation pursuing the penetration and unlawful encroachment of the installation by onshore grabbers led by an adjunct manager of FCDA, Mr. Chinedu Okoro.

The C2 Maitama Substation is simply a captious energy organisation installation serving homes, businesses, diplomatic missions, and authorities institutions. During the encroachment, captious energy cables and different web infrastructure were damaged, making it unsafe and technically intolerable to proceed powerfulness proviso from the facility.

AEDC has besides petitioned the applicable authorities implicit the activities of individuals, arsenic the substation and its onshore duly beryllium to AEDC. The Company expects a thorough probe and due enactment successful accordance with the law.

“We powerfully condemn immoderate encroachment connected captious nationalist infrastructure, arsenic specified actions deprive communities of indispensable energy supply, disrupt economical activities, and compromise nationalist interest.

“AEDC regrets the inconvenience caused and assures customers that restoration efforts volition commence arsenic soon arsenic the substation i...