Yemisi Izuora
Ikeja Electric, has resumed full operations after being picketed by some union organisations following the sack of about 400 employees.
Head of Corporate Communications, Felix Ofulue, told Oriental News Nigeria that the siege is over and normal work has resumed.
However, Ofulue could not guarantee stable or more efficient services because according to him power generation is not at its best now.
” I don’t know what we are receiving at the moment but I will check but generally there is low supply and this was compounded by the siege by unions” he said.
Apart from inadequate generation, Ofulue attributed the poor services experienced by consumers in its network recently to the activities by some Labour Unions who are picketing the facilities of the company.
According to him, the staff of the company were not on strike, rather they have been prevented by the protesting Labour Unions from gaining access to the facilities and are therefore the company was not in a position to provide any consistent services to its valued customers during the period.
This situation has impacted negatively on the power supply as well as purchase of recharge units because all the substations, Business Units and Undertakings have been taken over by the protesting Unions.
” Ikeja Electric regrets all inconveniences these action may have caused its customers and appeals to all its customers to please bear with us. We assure that the company is doing its best to normalize the situation within the shortest possible time. We thank all our customers for their patience and understanding” he added