{"id":58996,"date":"2025-01-06T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58996"},"modified":"2025-01-06T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:03:05","slug":"eedc-decries-vandalization-of-power-installations-in-abakaliki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/06\/eedc-decries-vandalization-of-power-installations-in-abakaliki\/","title":{"rendered":"EEDC Decries Vandalization of Power Installations in Abakaliki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), has raised concerns over the recent vandalization of its power installations in Abakaliki, which has disrupted electricity supply to several areas.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, EEDC attributed the outage to the vandalism of the Udemezue 11KV feeder in the early hours of January 5.<\/p>\n<p>Affected areas include Oroko-onuoha, Udensi, Kpirikpiri, Ogbaga Road, New Layout, Udemezue, Low-Cost Housing Estate, and Hilltop Road.<\/p>\n<p>Several businesses, including Amikaba, Siren Hotel, Man City Hotel, Muchels Hotel, De Pablo Hotel, and Unity FM, have also been impacted.<\/p>\n<p>EEDC officials discovered the damage during a patrol following an abnormal outage at 2:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Vandals reportedly stole 16 meters of 150mm\u00b2 x 3-core armored underground cable from the feeder&#8217;s source, leaving over 70 public and private transformers without power.<\/p>\n<p>Apologizing for the inconvenience, EEDC assured customers that efforts are underway to replace the stolen equipment and restore supply promptly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sincerely regret this development and appeal for patience and understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We remain committed to improving service delivery,&#8221; the company promised.<\/p>\n<p>EEDC urged residents to report any suspicious activities or information that could help apprehend the culprits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), has raised concerns over the recent vandalization of its power installations in Abakaliki, which has disrupted electricity supply to several areas. In a statement on Sunday, EEDC attributed the outage to the vandalism of the Udemezue 11KV feeder in the early hours of January 5. Affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58998,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58996\/revisions\/58998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}