*As Landlords’ Association Charges
Residents 6k Per House To Raise Bribe
There is
currently a culture of illegality rocking a Lagos community called Obadeyi
within the Agbado/Ijaye axis of Lagos-Abeokuta expressway as agents of the
inefficient Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) are compounding the woes of
residents by levying them a huge sum of one hundred and fifty thousand naira to
activate a transformer that was freely given by the state government to
alleviate the perennial epileptic power supply being faced in some
neighborhoods in the area.
According to
some residents who spoke with Different
Stroke Media under the banner of anonymity, the illegal collection of money
by PHCN is being facilitated through the Landlords’ Association in the
community for the Ijaye/Ojokoro District office of PHCN. And the landlords have
consequently charged each building in the affected neighborhoods made up of six
different streets a sum of six thousand naira to raise the bounty for the PHCN.
“We majorly
depend on generator for power supply in our houses because the PHCN claimed
they were shedding the light between us and some other neighborhoods using the
same transformer and yet, they hardly gave us the light despite the so-called
shedding of light. Hence, every individual in our neighborhood has a generator.
But surprisingly, the PHCN would still bring us crazy bills at the end of every
month. And now that the state government has given us an already connected
transformer to stop the shedding of light, why should PHCN ask us to pay for its
activation?” A resident queried.
Meanwhile,
the residents have called on the ever-listening Lagos state government to wade
into the situation and ensure the transformer is activated without further ado
because the bribe-loving PHCN had refused to activate the transformer simply
because some well-informed residents have said they were not paying a dime for
what is supposed to be free.
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