PHCN apologises for power interruption in Ikeja

TheIkeja Electricity Distribution Company of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria has attributed the power supply interruptions in the Ikeja area of Lagos State to cable fault.

The Assistant General Manager, Public Affairs, Ikeja Disco, Mr. Pekun Adeyanju, in a statement on Wednesday, conveyed the  company’s management apologies to customers at Ikeja GRA, Opebi, General Hospital, Medical Road, Computer Village and environs over the ongoing load-shedding in their areas.

“The load-shedding is due to the underground cable fault between our transmission station at Maryland and our injection substation at Police Training College, Ikeja,” he said

“In order to avoid total blackout in those areas before we finish clearing the fault, the management has decided to backfeed the affected areas through Ogba Transmission Station,” Adeyanju added.

He, however, said the management of Ikeja Disco had decided to go on overhead construction for easy clearing of fault because of the illegal structures on the underground cables, which had not been allowing easy access to clearing of faults.

He said the new overhead construction work had commenced, adding that it would be commissioned in the next few days.

“We regret all inconveniences being experienced by the affected customers and we assure that power supply would soon be normalised,” he added.

It will be recalled that the Ikeja Business Unit of the PHCN had condemned the rising customer debt totalling N3.1bn in the area.

Speaking during a recent consultative council meeting held with its customers in Lagos, on Wednesday, the Manager, PHCN Ikeja Business Unit, Mr. Lateef Olaleye, regretted that customer debts to the company as at June, 2013 stood at N3.1bn.

While government Ministries, Department and Agencies in the business area owed PHCN N2.3bn, Olaleye said others owed N7m.