The management of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company have announced today that some parts of Lagos, mainly on the Island, will experience power outage for 3 hours on December 8.
The head of Corporate Communication for EKEDC, Mr Godwin Idemudia made the announcement through a statement sent to newsmen in Lagos.
According to Idemudia, places affected include Ajah, Lekki, and Alagbon. Idemudia said that the outage was to enable the maintenance crew replace the weak aluminium conductor down dropper between the line and capacitor voltage transformer at Ajah T.S.
He said that the company had been briefed by Mr Mustapha Raji, an Engineer from Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Ajah Sub-Region.
“Kindly note that on Thursday Dec.8, between 10.00 – 13.00hrs, there will be an outage on 330kV Egbin – Aja Line 3.
“This is to enable maintenance crew to replace the weak aluminium conductor down dropper between the line and the capacitor voltage transformer at Aja T.S.
“With this outage, Aja, Lekki and part of Alagbon T.S. will be affected.
“EKEDC highly regrets any inconvenience caused by this three-hour outage,” Idemudia said.
At a time of deteriorating power situation in the country, I believe these areas have more than 3 hours of power outage daily on the average. What difference will this make?