Ikeja Electric officers accused of misconduct, human rights violations.

A foundation known as Prince Children Foundation (PCF) in Ojodu-Berger area of Lagos, on Tuesday accused Ikeja Electric (IE) officials of misconduct and violation of human rights.

Mr Adegoke Fadayiro, the National Coordinator of PCF, made the accusation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

Fadayiro said that the officials of IE invaded the location with men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), leading to panic and chaos among residents and kids in the community.

According to him, on Sept.19 round 4.00 p.M, children have been playing on the streets whilst officials of IE arrived with men of the civil defence corps armed with weapons.

“They have been chasing citizens within the network with guns, even as trying to disconnect electricity deliver to the location over unsettled bills…

“IE officials have been terrorising the residents with security employees, while looking to disconnect electric carrier traces to person homes.

“This is ridiculous, and it is a gross misconduct, violation of human rights and child rights,’’ he said.

Fadayiro stated that a few elements of the community had been experiencing energy outage for the past  months whilst power supply to the vicinity turned into disconnected.

The PCF national coordinator said that he said the rights violation to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in Ikeja on Sept. 23.

“The NERC sent a message to us to fulfill IE officers on Dec.Thirteen, but we had been upset while we got to the venue and had been handiest advised that the hearing were postponed indefinitely without any reason.

“We need justice to be finished, that is why we wrote NERC, because the most effective regulatory body, to seek redress.


“Now, we do not realize if NERC is helping IE via postponing the hearing indefinitely, even as we are languishing in darkness and our rights being violated,’’ he said.

In his response, Mr Felix Ofulue, Head of Corporate Communications at IE, told NAN that a few consumers had been reconnecting power illegally when they had been disconnected.

According to him, company officials were disallowed by means of residents from sporting out the disconnection once they got to the network for the second one time to get better carrier wires.

“This triggered the agency to request for the service of men of NSCDC to stop assaults on our officers even as sporting out their lawful obligations,’’ he said.

(Source: NAN)