Obiano Inaugurates Electricity Injection Substation In ABS Premises, Awka

Governor Willie Obiano has inaugurated the Electricity Injection Substation At ABS premises Aroma, Awka.

The ABS injection substation installed by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, in partnership with Anambra State government which donated the land, has 7.5 MVA capacity, and is expected to provide eighteen hours power supply to sixteen Communities in Awka and environs.

The Governor also used the occasion to commission the upgraded 15 MVA Injection Substation at Agu-Awka, which increased the number of benefitting Communities to twenty four.

The benefiting Communities are expected to start enjoying twenty-four hours power supply when the process is completed by the beginning of next year.

Members of the State Executive Council, members of the State House of Assembly, led by the Speaker, Right Honourable Uchenna Okafor, Traditional Rulers, and Religious Leaders, Heads of parastatals and government agencies, among others, attended the event.

Governor Obiano while performing the function said that the effort is to ensure that Ndi Anambra are provided with enough power to drive the State economy, warning that State government will not tolerate any form of vandalism of EEDC facilities.

The Governor, who said that eleven vandals have already been imprisoned, stressed that a special monitoring task force in charge of the operation in the one hundred and seventy-nine Communities of the State, is in motion.

He assured EEDC of increased support, adding that he has instructed the Physical Planning Board to pull down structures built under the EEDC power lines.

In his speech, the Commissioner for Public Utilities, Mr. Obi Nwankwo enumerated State government’s intervention in the power sector to include installation of thirty three KVA line in Orumba South Local Government Area, thirty three KVA line in Awada through Idemmili to Nnewi industrial area, thirty three KVA line from Agu Awka to Anambra North, among others, adding that over four hundred transformers have so far been distributed by the present administration, while Governor Obiano is still ready for more strategic partnerships.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of EEDC, Mr. Okey Nwosu said that the move was aimed at ensuring quality power supply and disclosed that massive infrastructure rehabilitation work is ongoing in the South East, and thanked State government for the support of donating a land, stressing that they have automated most of their processes to improve power situation in the South East region.

He said that they will commence Meter Access scheme on the 15th of June where meter providers are paid to supply customers with meters in ten days, lamenting incidents of vandalization, quackery, nonpayment of electricity bills, among others, which he explained, has adverse effect on the company.