The Management of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) Plc has appealed to residents in communities at Okeho (LGA) in the Oyo State in Nigeria to remain calm, assuring that their power supply situation would soon improve.
A statement by the Chief Operating Officer of the Company, Engr. John Ayodele said that 132KV-line supplies the 11 LGs from the Oyo town to Iseyin, Okeho, Otu, Paapo, Ago-Are up to Saki, and this puts a lot of pressure on the infrastructure, which is the reason for its poor performance.
In response to this challenge, the Federal Government has commenced the construction of a new 132KV-line to augment and improve the present supply.
“In addition, we are about to energize the control room at Ogan to enable effective supply arrangement by stepping down the 33KV line to 11KV to serve the communities better,” he promised the customers.
Engr. Ayodele further said that Okeho is on service band E, which means that they should get an average supply of four hours daily, but currently, they get an average of five hours. Also, in line with the NERC stipulated tariff, the communities are billed monthly on a cumulative average of computerized daily supply in compliance with the capping policy.
“IBEDC is a customer-centric organization, and we are working on metering our customers to put an end to the billing issues. As soon as we begin more deployment of meters under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) or any other scheme approved by NERC, we shall continue to meter our customers based on the service band categorization for ease of distribution,”
Engr. Ayodele said.
He, on that note, pleaded with the esteemed customers at Okeho to remain patient and embrace constructive dialogue to ensure better outcomes.
