Ekiti Threatens Legal Action Over Prolonged Ago Aduloju Blackout

BY Bamidele Atoyebi
August 10, 2025
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The Ekiti State Government has given the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) a seven-day deadline to restore power to Ago Aduloju community or face legal action.

In a letter dated August 8, 2025, addressed to the Coordinator of BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited, the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Public Utility, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, and Attorney General, Dayo Apata (SAN), accused the company of breaching its duty and an earlier agreement with the community.

According to a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, the officials recalled that both parties had reached understandings on debt repayment, transformer de-bulking for prepaid metering, and payments for meters and installation.

They noted that the community had been without electricity for three months despite these agreements and repeated visits to the company’s headquarters.

“Issues such as money owed to BEDC/BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited, a schedule of paying back the money, de-bulking of the community transformer to allow for individual prepaid metering and community payments for meters and their installation had been discussed and agreed upon by the parties,” the statement read.

The state government stressed that BEDC’s “persistent refusal to restore electricity supply to the community is a clear breach of agreement and its duty. This has led to untold hardship for dwellers in the community because of the persistent total blackout being experienced there.”

It added that BEDC “has an obligation to energise the community, being one of the distribution company’s primary responsibilities and services to the public, coupled with the agreements reached at the meeting of 8th May, 2025 between representatives of the company and the community.”

Concluding the warning, the government said: “A seven-day ultimatum to the BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited to renew its stand and restore electricity supply to the community, failure of which we shall have no option but to ventilate our grievances in the court of law.”

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