CDA seeks N2m to install transformer in Ado-Odo

Residents of Ifeoluwa Community Development Association have called on the leadership of Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, for assistance to enable the community to install and energise a transformer it procuredCommunity News gathered that residents of the area, in an attempt to boost power supply in the community, contributed money to buy a transfomer.However, after procurement, it was discovered that the community would require another N2 million to install and energise the transformer.Speaking on the development, the spokesperson for the community, Alhaj Lanre Oyafemi, told Community News that the electrcity supply to the community was very poor due to the fact that about six other communities depended on one old transformer serving the communities . And to save the situation and prevent total breakdown of the transformer, the authorities of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (phcn) resorted to load shedding.Oyafemi explained that the residents at one of the cda meeting, agreed that the only solution to the problem of incessant power failure was for them to raise money and buy their own transformer."We realised that the only way to get out of the problem was for us to procure our own transformer 'We raised money through self help to get the transformer, however, we later realised that we will need another N2 million to install the transformer. Our appeal to the leadership of our local government is to help us achieve the dream."Oyafemi explained that a stable eectricity supply to the area would boost economic activities in the area, "if we have good power supply in this neighbourhood, it will be a good plus for the people as artisans and traders in the community would spend less on fuel they use to power their generators."
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