…threatens Legal action over failure of the DISCO to honour its May 2025 Agreement
The Ekiti State Government has protested the denial of electricity supply to Ago-Aduloju Community in Ado-Ekiti Local Government Area of the State by the BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited (BEEL) despite the fact all necessary obligations under an agreement between BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited (BEEL) and the Community have been met.
The Government in a letter to the The Coordinator, BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited (BEEL) dated 8th August ,2025 and jointly signed by the State Commissioner for Infrastructure and Public Utility, Prof Mobolaji Aluko and the State Attorney General, Mr Dayo Apata (SAN) recalled that issues such as the money owed to BEEL/BEDC, 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 thoroughly discussed and agreed upon by the parties during several engagements especially at the meeting held at the Office of the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Public Utilities in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, 8th May 2025.
The State Government in the correspondence expressed regret that three months after, the Ago Aduloju Community continues to be deprived of electricity supply due to failure of BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited to restore electricity supply to the community for what it referred to as “various untenable reasons” put forward by the company and after many fruitless appeals and visits by the parties to the DISCO’s Headquarters.
The Ekiti State Government stressed that the BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited has an obligation to energize 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.
While pointing out that the company’s willful and persistent refusal to restore electricity supply to the Community is a clear breach of agreement and its duty, the Government stated that this has led to untold hardship for dwellers in the Community because of the persistent total blackout being experienced there.
The State Government consequently issued a seven-day ultimatum to the BEDC Electricity Ekiti Limited to renew its stand and restore electricity supply to the Community, failure of which the Government will have no option than to ventilate its grievances in the Court of Law.
Last modified: August 10, 2025
