Ogun communities protest 10 years of darkness and neglect by government

Residents of Ibafo and Magboro and other communities in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun gathered with placards in front of the office of Punch newspaper and along the Lagos -Ibadan expressway to protest 10 years without power and a complete neglect by the government.
The protesters who blocked the expressway, causing traffic gridlock say their communities lack social amenities.

Singing solidarity songs, they urged the government to provide basic amenities in the area before the rainy season.

The leader of the group, Funsho Olawepo, warned that the protest may escalate if nothing was done in the next seven days.

He said, “The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company has been dribbling us for the past 10 years and giving all kinds of excuses.

“But we are here to say enough is enough. We have become a government to ourselves. We provide our own school, hospital, road, drainage, and even police station. We bought our own transformers, cables and poles and we have spent more than N400m and all we have been asking them to do is to give us power and they have refused.

“We have written the federal, state and local government without getting any response. We recently wrote to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and he did not do anything.

“If in the next seven days nothing is done, we cannot predict what will happen next.”

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Source: The Punch