Estate residents force to fetch stream water after Six-month blackout

life has been made difficult for Residents of Yotomi Golden Estate along the Ofada-Owode Road, Mowe, Ogun State, following six-month power outage in the area. Since October, 2015, when the estate’s only transformer was vandalised by hoodlums, power had been cut off from the area, which also affected water supply and forced some residents to fetch water from a stream near the estate.

 

As a result of the ongoing fuel scarcity, residents who had generators had joined others to fetch water from the stream, while almost all the houses were presently in total darkness.

On October 29, 2015, that the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, which served the estate, allegedly disconnected the community when they protested against poor power supply to the area.

It was reported that the then IBEDC Owode Service Unit Manager, Kola Olanipekun, received a delegation from the estate which demanded improved power supply in the area.

A week after the meeting, the transformer supplying power to the estate was vandalised by unidentified persons, and the estate had been in total blackout since then. It was learnt that the transformer was punctured, while its oil was drained.