EKO Disco to install 138 transformers to boost supply

The Management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc (EKEDC) has made it known that over 138 transformers worth N700 million had been acquired for replacement of faulty ones to boost supply during the festive period.

The EKEDC’s managing director, Mr. Oladele Amoda, spoke during an inspection of newly acquired equipment at their Ijora main store in Lagos on Wednesday.

Amoda said that the company’s directors source for fund to acquire equipment that would improve the electricity supply within its network to teeming customers during the yuletide season.

According to him, the company is always thinking of how to satisfy its customers.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes Amoda saying, “The purchase of the new transformers is to ensure that our customers enjoy the yuletide season with quality supply.

“We have embarked on massive replacement of faulty transformers within the network, we expected customers to reciprocate this gesture by paying their bills.

“We also expect communities who will benefit from the transformers not to see them as public property but as their own so that they can help us safeguard the transformers against vandalism by unscrupulous elements.”

The EKEDC boss also said that the company had lost over N1 billion to various forms of energy theft and equipment vandalism in the last three years.

He said that the issue of by-passing of meter by customers who wants to avoid payment was rampant within the network.

He said that EKEDC cannot continue to invest huge sums of money into network improvement and some people will be allowed to vandalise such equipment.

Amoda warned customers who are in the habit of by-passing meter or involved in any act of energy thefts to desist, adding that the company will not hesitate to prosecute and publish names of culprits in the dailies.

He advised customers with wrong connection leading to energy theft to report to the company before they are discovered and penalised.