According to members of the community, the transformer was facilitated to the community by the senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Adetokunbo Abiru, after several failed appeals to the Ikeja Electric to provide a relief transformer to ease the load on their existing transformer.

Speaking to PUNCH Metro, the Chairman of The Exclusives CDA, Akintunde Arowolo, said, “After several failed appeals to the Ikeja Electric to give us a relief transformer, we ran to our senator, who then facilitated one. The transformer was brought to our community on March 15, 2024, and the contractor assigned by Senator Abiru completed the installation of the transformer on April 21, 2024.”

Arowolo added that the necessary tests were carried out on the transformer, and it was “certified okay.”

“Since the installation was completed, we started writing letters to Ikeja Electric and visiting their undertaking office in Igbogbo requesting that the transformer be energised immediately to prevent vandals from vandalising it. But all our requests were ignored.

“At one point, they told us that the transformer needed a DT meter to measure energy consumption accurately, and they were to provide the meter. We continued to follow up with them, but they still continued to ignore our requests,” the CDA chairman claimed.

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