Residents of Saki on this year’s Nigeria Democracy Day held an electricity town hall meeting at the Saki Parapo town hall, Saki.
Insideoyo.com gathered that the electricity town hall meeting was organised by the Asabari Consultative Council under the Chairmanship of Gen. A.K. Togun (rtd).
The meeting came to the fore after numerous activities embarked upon by the Council towards eradicating age long cheating, exploitation and manipulations that Saki has been facing in the hands of electricity service providers.
In a meeting which was well attended by numerous Saki electricity consumers, it
was unanimously decided and agreed upon that the Asabari Consultative Council
should proceed without delay the commencement of the plan to speak the language what they called “the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) understands” in order have more hours of supply.
The efforts of the Council were graciously applauded by many in attendance as to the noticeable evidence of improvements in power supply after mounting pressures on the IBEDC.
The town hall meeting was used as an avenue by the Council to enlighten the
teeming populace that attended the meeting on the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s Electricity Customers’ Rights and Obligations.
This enlightenment made many in attendance to know their rights as electricity consumers and with a vow to henceforth enforce their rights which had hitherto been trampled by the Disco serving them.
The National Executive of Saki Parapo led by Dn. Olujimi and Alhaji Okoko and
other eminent dignitaries like the Rector, Mr. M.O. Oladeji and Bursar of the Oke Ogun Polytechnic, Saki, led the members of the academia at the event.
Artisans, community leaders, Chairmen of Landlords’ association, youth groups, Saki Youth Forum, student leaders and many others were not left out of the meeting that lasted three hours.
Afterwards, the meeting dissolved into a massive protest against the IBEDC with many joining the protests with placards of various inscriptions stating the experiences of dismay and manipulations by the IBEDC.
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