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IEDPU Tasks IBEDC On Adequate Power Supply To Ilorin
Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), the umbrella sociocultural organisation of the good people of Ilorin Emirate in Kwara State, has appealed to the authorities of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) to ensure adequate power supply to the community.
The National President of the Union, Alhaji Abdulmumini Ayo Abdulmalik, in a letter dated February 5, 2025 and addressed to the Managing Director of IBEDC, expressed the dissatisfaction of the people of Ilorin Emirate to the persistent poor quantity and quality of power supply to the Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, since last year.
Alhaji Abdulmalik, who is a retired Assistant Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, said that the unenviable poor service delivery of the power company is particularly noticeable in the indigenous segment of Ilorin, which, he said, is inhabited by the greatest percentage of the people and residents of Kwara State.
He noted that the position of the Union on the matter is informed by the “repeatedly vigorous representations made to her by several groups and members of our community over the last one year on the increasingly dwindling electricity supply to their homes, workshops, business centers and offices”.
The statement stresses that “the Union is displeased that the people of the community hardly enjoyed quality power supply for six hours a day as some areas do not even enjoy power supply for days and with no reason whatsoever from your organisation”.
He regretted that “the envisaged positive effects of the privatisation of the nation’s electricity sector is not being felt by the people of the community who are mostly and continually served with crazy bills for the power they didn’t consume while also forced to endure perpetual darkness”.
Alhaji Abdulmalik added that but for the intervention of the Union, a number of protests from concerned members of the public across the city of Ilorin and the neighbouring communities would have been recorded as the perpetual darkness is possing serious threats to the security of lives and property as well as the businesses of several individuals and organisations.
The Union, therefore, appealed strongly to IBEDC and other stakeholders to use their good offices to ensure that the people of Ilorin Emirate enjoyed adequate quality power supply to enhance their well-being and economic prosperity.
Signed:
Mallam Nurudeen Ibrahim,
National Publicity Secretary,
Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union,
Wednesday, February 5, 2025.
