Electricity project: Ogun communities protest non-payment of compensation | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Land and House owners whose buildings were marked for demolition in six communities in Ogun State on Monday staged a protest against non-payment of compensation for their structures acquired by the Transmission Company of Nigeria ..

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The landlords lamented that since eight years ago when their properties were acquired for the construction of the project, no compensation had been paid to. They appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently address their grievances and order TCN to pay them the compensation with the current value of their properties.

Oluwagbemiga noted that over 30 houses were marked for demolition in 2014 when transmission company of Nigeria inspected the communities for electricity project, which made them abandoned their homes and relocate to another settlement. He stressed that, TCN had made several promises to compensate the building owners but had failed to fulfil its promises for the past eight years.

“In 2021, they continue like that, whenever we call them , they will be tell us they are coming tomorrow , they made promises upon promises without fulfilling any of it. In November, we saw some contractors working in the area, we have to stop them because they have not fulfill their promises. The management said, the power sector has been the most hit in the most devastating manner as residential customers, industries, small and medium scale businesses are being starved of power as a result of the activities of vandals.

Mr. Simple Ugherakpoteni, who spoke on behalf of MD/CEO, Mrs. Funke Osibodu commended the community for its vigilance over BEDC network, saying vandalism of electricity distribution network and other forms of electrical thefts are serious threats to power sector sustainability and economic growth, insisting that increasing vandalism will force the company to spend money meant to improve electricity infrastructure to repair or replace damaged and stolen installations.

 

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Despite all the money u collect from customer,and if dey not pay u,u insisted to cut d wire useless country useless people

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