Delta: Women Protest Lack of Electricity In Communities

On June 1st, hundreds of  protesting  women  from three  Delta  communities of Jakpa, Orumaro and Udumu, all in Uvwie local government   area  of the
state  have  protested  the inability of the Benin Electricity Development Company(BEDC) at  Effurun to provide their communities with electricity.

The women who were armed with leaves and placards of different inscriptions, were  shouting on top of their voices, calling on the power distribution firm to restore power in their communities which has been in total darkness since last year.

Staffers of the power distribution outfit was taken unawares as the women waited till the close of work to prevent them from leaving the
office complex to remain indoors.Expressing their displeasure over the epileptic power supply, the  protesters call on the power distribution outfit to replace old transformers, as power outage in their communities started last year.
                                                     

In the meantime, the protest by the communities women is coming barely a week after labour leaders  shut the entrance of the Warri office of
the BEDC, protesting the Non-payment  of their entitlements. Efforts to speak with the BEDC public relations officer Mr. Edmund Egware  was  unsuccessful , as he abandoned  his  official  car and left the scene  when  the protest was intensified, while calls to his phone lines were not answered.