Ojodu village is located along ajaokuta itobe lokoja express road. The community has suffered a lot in the past before she’s making use of electricity. It’s has been the effort of some keys personalities and support of some of the past house of representatives members that fetched us the transformer we are using till date.
Each time the transformer developed fault, we took it upon ourselves to contribute money to repair and has being maintaining it for years since the government neglected us each time we called on them. The best they will do is to make public pledges and never Care to fulfill them.
We have being in darkness since last year November. Count it between November and now is about 7 months in blank out.
We put our heads together and decided to take it upon ourselves to ensure we repair the old transformer since we don’t have much to get the one for ourselves. But at the point the amount involved was increasing on a daily basis, and we end up spending almost a million to ensure everything works out perfectly.
Now the pain on our side is on high as all our efforts seem going in vain but we can’t be fool to fold our arms and allow aedc officials monitoring this axis to go free. They have done much harm to us than solution and now we are even suspecting them to be the one behind all the damages of the past, not until they proof us otherwise..
AEDC C were in ojodu yesterday being Wednesday the 17th of July 2020 and the contractor handling the servicing of our transformer job finished his job successfully and start the transformer for test running yesterday.
We learned that the transformer was said to be on for 24hrs to warm it very well since it’s has been down for months.
The contractor on it and left, Not upto 3hours the transformer stopped working few time the AEDC men left for another location and both the nepa and the contractor were informed immediately. they both agreed to show up today to check what really happened yesterday.
I made a home called and I was told something got burnt and it was called “LIGHTNING ARRESTORS”
You will be shocked what took PLACE TODAY, can you believe that those AEDC STAFF’S went to did wrong connection and connect some wire meant for low tension to the high tension? It was today the contractor discovered that and in the process, the coil of the transformer has burnt. The contractor has vowed to involve nepa directors in charge of our area and their boss said that they should give him time to come over and see it himself that he can’t believe what the contractor is saying.
At this juncture, any nepa officials involved in the process must be call out to say what they know and get penalize .
We may not know them but their representative in ojodu should know them.. This shows that nepa are not happy that they are not the one given the contract to fix our transformer. Now that their wrong connector has been done and 1 of the coil got burnt, we must work with the contractor that everyone involved must not go free. Community must charge them to court and must repair the transformer back to normal.
Enough of this rubbish from nepa.. We are in darkness for more than 5 months, they didn’t care, why are they coming out now to increase the level of our pains now?
Justice must be done between ojodu community and the AEDC in charge of ojodu OGANE transformer this time.. Enough is ENOUGH.
🤔It’s a bad experienced that non of the kogi east representative show up to assist the situation.
Please if you are lead to support this poor village to restore her light as a group individual or an NGO the door for such assistance is wide open. Phone numbers and mail is left beneath.
MAWEDO JOSEPH NICODEMUS REPORTING, ON BEHALF OF THE OJODU COMMUNITY
Email :mawedojosephnicodemus@gmail.com
Tel:07033408800, 08050704134.