Residents protest ‘five-year’ erratic power supply in Nasarawa community

Some residents have protested “persistent” power outages in Wazobia community, Mararaba, Karu LGA of Nasarawa state.

Ifeanyi Alamaujo, chairman of the community, led the protesters to the Mararaba area office of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company(AEDC).

Speaking during the protest on Friday, Alamuaujo said residents of the community are deprived of power supply despite paying for it.

“We marched to the AEDC Mararaba area office because we are paying for electricity but we don’t get service,” NAN quoted him as saying.

”Sometimes, we get supply for only ten minutes. We came here to discuss with the management to know why we don’t get power supply. It has been five years. It is too much.”

While addressing the protesters, Aluko Temidayo, manager of Mararaba AEDC office, promised to improve the power supply to the community.

“Like I promised, we will do the needful to make everyone happy. We cannot be 100 per cent perfect because of our system,” Temidayo said.

”We will do something that at the end of the day, you will see changes.

“The stage we are in now is a general problem. it is not your community alone but we will do our best to make our customers happy.

“If our customers are not happy, we too are not happy too because you pay our salaries. Please bear with us.”