Blackout in South-East as electricity workers commence strike
From Chinedu Nwafor Abakaliki
The industrial strike action embarked upon by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) power stations, have disrupted operations across the franchise area of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC).
A statement released by Emeka Ezeh, Head Corporate Communications, (EEDC) on Wednesday said as a result of the strike “all our feeders are out of supply and this has affected supply to our esteemed customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States.”
“The Management of EEDC hereby encourage customers and neighbourhood associations to be vigilant and protect the electrical installations within their environment against elements who might take advantage of this outage to vandalise these installations
“We therefore appeal for continued patience and understanding while this is resolved,” he said.
