Disturbing News of Outage of power supply for about eight weeks have hit residence of some part of Lagos-State.
The Ikeja Electric through the C.T.O made this known. Plc said some areas under its operational network will experience outages for a period of eight weeks to enable the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to re-conduct its 132KV lines.
Mr. Olajide Kumapayi, the Chief Technical Officer on Monday said in Ikeja that operation will begin on Oct. 11, though will affect the day-day activities of people, it was aimed to boost transmission and distribution of electricity to Nigerians.
According to him, areas that will be affected by this stage of the project include Oregun, Police Training College, Oba Akran, Oke Ira, Ogba, Magodo , Anifowoshe and Omole Phase One.
He said: “The TCN is currently embarking on the upgrade of the 132KV lines from Ikeja West to Ota and Alimosho in stages. This is the second stage.
“The TCN is replacing all the aluminum conductors with gap conductors which is more sophisticated to withstand heat and has more capacity to carry current.
“The implication of this is that from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. everyday, the substations controlling these areas will be switched off which will affect the feeders connected to them.
“This will affect all categories of customers within the area especially our Maximum Demand (MD) customers such as Ikeja City Mall, Police College, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and the Ikeja High Court.”
He added that the TCN would also move to Alimosho and Agege axis during the next stage.
Head of Corporate Communications Ikeja Electric, Mr Felix Ofulue said the DisCo had written to the MD customers notifying them of the situation.
Ofulue said the company was also meeting with its bilateral power supply agreement partners and appealed to all those affected to exercise patience with the DisCo during the period.
He Said “Even though this is a TCN project, it is our duty to inform our customers of the situation because we are the ones that interface with them on a daily basis.
“We believe it will be for the benefit of our customers at the end of the day, and will also allow Ikeja Electric to invest more in our system to improve power supply to customers under our network”.
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