Eko Electricity Distribution Plc is working to restore stable power supply to Festac Town and Amuwo Odofin after weeks of outages driven by national grid upgrades and a wave of cable vandalism that the utility says has hit no part of its network harder.
The company, known as Eko DisCo, said in a statement Wednesday that recent disruptions were “driven principally by upgrades and improvement activities at the national transmission level,” but that the situation was “compounded by sustained vandalism of underground distribution cables,” with Festac recording “the highest incidence across the EKEDP network.”
The acknowledgement underscores a dual challenge facing Nigeria’s power distributors: aging and vulnerable underground infrastructure in dense urban districts, layered on top of intermittent supply from the Transmission Company of Nigeria as it carries out network improvements.
Eko DisCo said it has completed and commissioned a new feeder, Festac 3, which draws power from the Ojo
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