There are indication that vandals have invaded the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, destroying equipment belonging to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).
The company, in a statement today, March 18 by its Chief Marketing Officer, Donald Etim, said that it is experiencing cases of serious vandalism around its infrastructure, causing outages in some areas in the FCT.
“While we are working to optimally deploy the low power AEDC is being allocated daily in recent days, please be informed that we are also experiencing cases of serious vandalism around our network.
“Specifically, in our Wuye Substation and Utako Substation in FCT, vandalism is causing outages in those areas and environs.
“For Wuye, two Injection Substation areas affected are NNPC Quarters, Cosgrove Estate, Reuben Okoye Street, Pius Ayim Street, Tambuwal Street, Shafa Filling station, Nation Wide Estate, DSS Quarters, Idris Gidado and its environs,” he said.
The statement said that for B6 Injection Substation, areas affected are Anthony Enahoro Street, National Assembly Commission, Ministry of Environment Annex, Aneio Hotel, KANEM Suites, Peace Park.
Others, it said, are the Inuwa Wada Close, S.O. Williams Close, JMG Generators, Custom Quarters, Glory Estate, Dove Estate, Utako Market, IBM Haruna Street, TOS Benson Street, Alibro Plaza, Chisco Transport, and environs.
The statement said that AEDC’s engineers are currently at those sites working to restore normal supply, estimated to be in a matter of hours.
It said that AEDC’s management regretted any inconveniences and appealled to customers for their understanding.
Source: NAN.
