We write in haste to intimate you of the plight of our community development association in the hands of your business manager in Ojo Business District, concerning our repeated demand for a Back-up transformer A 500 KVA 11/0415 KVA transformer.
Our letter, dated 3rd July, 2014, to the office of the Chief Executive\Officer (CEO) and acknowledged received on 9th July 2014 (copy attached) complained about the distribution of (8) eight transformer infrastructure distribution of electricity. These are located on the other side of Ilogbo road to supply electricity to the following streets, Muniru Street, Alateowo Street, Ajayi Street, Olusegun Street, Ikale Ewa Street, Debo Close, Ajoke Street, Adeyemo Street and Y.S Street sketch of location of Transformer Distributing Power on Ilogbo Road (Tope / Itire Axis) Attached.
Whereas the other divide of Ilogbo road consisted of Joseph Babatunde Street, Ifebajo Street, Agbo – Nla Close, Ayeni Street., Sunray Close, Diegbeha Extension, Diegbeha Close and Wedluck Avenue, make use of one leg of transformer on Ilogbo road (Which was the first transformer installed in 1988 to serve the entire Ilogbo community) to distribute electricity in the whole eight (8) streets consisting of 141 houses in this axis.
Our community has since provided platform at a location for the proposed transformer supervised and certified by PHCN.
It is obvious that there is no fair distribution of transformer infrastructure to our community, hence the epileptic supply of power and regular trip-off of power continue unabated. And our request to EKCD for allocation of a back-up 500 KVA transformer for equitable distribution of power supply in our community remains unattended to. Our community has never enjoyed electricity up to six hundred minutes (10 hours) in a month.
The existing transformer we were told is not overloaded but the feeder needs balancing because one unit is serving about 141 (one hundred and forty one) houses in our community, while three feeder serve twelve, another twenty eight houses and one hotel respectively which is on a unit. It has become increasingly embarrassing for the community comprising of 141 (one hundred and forty one) buildings calling up your men at Ajangbadi Undertaking at least three times in a week to report rapture of fuse or jumper as a result of their overloaded unit.
On the 22nd May, 2017 President of Joint Youth Congress (Ojo Local Government) was invited to the stakehoder’s meeting held by EKEDC at Elite Events centre, Iba, Lagos and he complained about the plight of our CDA. Since then nothing concrete has been done and your men carried ladder daily to harass our community people who are majorly made to pay high, unjustified estimated bills using the functional transformer on the others side to prepare bills for the epileptic energy supplied us. This was not acceptable by our community.
Our community had been in total black out since October 2017 despite our repeated demand for a relief transformer since 2014.
At this junction, your immediate and urgent intervention is required to calm the frayed nerves of our teeming youth and grant our request for a 500 kva 11/0.415 transformer with a provision for pre-paid meters. This will give a lasting and reliable resolution to the supply of electrical energy and revive economic activities in our community development association.”
O.O. Oladokun,
Itire Heritage Development
Association, Lagos.
