Ondo South Blackouts: My efforts would soon yield massive results – Sen Tofowom
After over a decade power outage, the senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Nicholas Tofowomo, has assured residents of four local councils that electricity would be restored in the affected areas before December 2022.
Tofowomo, who revealed that his efforts would soon yield massive results, said this, yesterday, shortly after Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders within the area endorsed him to return to the National Assembly for a second term as a ranking senator.
At the stakeholders’ meeting in his Ile-Oluji hometown, he recounted that: “I visited Omotosho Power Plant as a senator-elect in 2019. I had an interactive session with them on the way out of the age-long darkness. Consequently, I met with the management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) in 2020 with the representatives of affected communities led by the Petu of Ode Aye and we discussed how to tackle the power outage in many communities.”
The four local councils largely affected by the blackout in the senatorial district are: Irele, Okitipupa, Ese-Odo and Ilaje councils, which have not had electricity for over a decade.
“To the glory of God, the meeting was successful. Today, BEDC has released power supply to metered customers in Ode Aye, Igbokoda and some streets in Okitipupa. Also, challenges of communities yet to be energised under the affected local councils were discussed.
“But BEDC officially complained that the 132kv line operated by TCN from Osogbo to Ondo Transmission Station is overloaded, because it is only one of the 30mva transformers that are currently working and the entire Ondo South depends on it.”
“Hence, I started following up with the timely completion and installation of the Erinje Transmission Substation as the lasting solution to reconnect all the communities in the five affected local councils for uninterrupted power supply.
“I moved a motion on the floor of the Senate and I engaged the honourable Minister of Niger Delta handling the project to release funds to the contractor so that he could complete his work. I also visited the site of the project on two occasions to assess the work following the little progress recorded. Today, the Erinje Transmission Substation is 95 percent completed and efforts are currently ongoing to ensure the job is 100 percent completed.”
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