10 years of blackout: FG to restore power to Ondo south

The Federal government has announced that it has awarded contracts for the rehabilitation and upgrading of the network supplying power to the Ondo South Senatorial districts which has been in darkness for ten years.

 

The Executive Director, Engineering and Technical services of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, Ifeoluwa Oyedele, made the announcement during a courtesy visit by the officials of the company to the state governor.

 

Oyedele disclosed that the rehabilitation and upgrade to be done in Okitipupa and Ilaje include the following: rehabilitation of 5km, 33kv line from Okitipupa to Igodan – Lisa, Construction of 0.5km 33kv line take off, construction of 1X7.5mVA, 33/11KV Injection substation, construction of 6km 11kv line in Igodan – Lisa Town and construction of 2Nos. 500 KVA, Distribution substations within Ondo Seagate University of Science and Technology Campus and 8 Nos. 300KVA, 11/0.415 KV Distribution Transformer in Igodan – Lisa.

 

Others are the rehabilitation of the 33Kv line section from Igodan – Lisa to Igbokoda, rehabilitation of 29km Igbokoda – Mahin – Ugbo – Nla 33kV line section and construction of 10km 11kV line, installation of 5 Nos. 300kVA, 11/0.415kV and 5 Nos. 300kVA, 33/0.415 KV substation and 20km low tension lines at Igbokoda, Mahin and Ugbo – Nla.

 

Oyedele commended Governor Akeredolu for being resolute and determined to bring an end to the total power outage in the Southern Senatorial district of the state.

 

He said, “I am pleased to announce that contracts have been awarded not only to restore power to the southern senatorial district but also to upgrade it.

 

“In Okitipupa area for instance its tragic  that OSUSTECH which was established 11 years ago have not had one unit of power supply since inception. Therefore, a child born in Okitipupa 10 years ago or in Ilaje fifteen 15 years ago will not have seen public power supply in her life. But today, we are moving to end this tragic story. ”

 

Responding, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu said he was confident that light would be restored to the south senatorial district.

 

He said,”The need to have power supply in the south can not be over emphasized . For a community to even be without light for a day is  unbearable . And you now talk about a week , a month , a year and now years. Multiple of years . And in some areas , you talk about 8 years . It is something unheard of.

 

“When we were campaigning ,one of the major area of our campaign is that we will try all our best to ensure that light comes back

 

“The people are agitated. They have demonstrated a couple of times. They have a right to be angry.”

 

The Governor thanked President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for their roles in ensuring that light is restored to the area.

 

Akeredolu assured that the  contractors would enjoy full cooperation and support of the people in the area.