{"id":63880,"date":"2025-04-07T04:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63880"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:43:18","slug":"outrage-as-fct-residents-protest-power-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/07\/outrage-as-fct-residents-protest-power-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as FCT Residents Protest Power Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tension is mounting in the Federal Capital Territory as frustrated residents have taken to the streets, accusing the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company of favouring wealthy districts while plunging ordinary neighbourhoods into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>The protest, which erupted over the weekend, saw angry voices from Kuje, Kubwa, and Dutse rallying against what they described as unfair electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in these areas, who fall under Bands B to E, lament receiving only a few hours of power daily, despite being slapped with monthly bills.<\/p>\n<p>Their frustration boiled over as they questioned why a privileged few, mostly elite areas and high-profile institutions categorised as Band A, enjoy as much as twenty hours of uninterrupted electricity, while the majority struggle with erratic supply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is injustice of the highest order,&#8221; a resident in Kubwa fumed. &#8220;We all pay our bills but only a few get reliable power. Are we not part of the same country?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The protesters are now calling on the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and the federal government to urgently scrap or review the controversial band system, insisting that equitable distribution of power is not a luxury but a necessity.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that national development hinges not on selective billing or tariff hikes, but on reliable and fair electricity for all citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public trust is eroded when basic services like power are reserved for a few,&#8221; another protester in Dutse remarked.<\/p>\n<p>As the calls for reform grow louder, all eyes are now on the authorities to respond to the demands of FCT residents who say they are tired of being left in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Tension is mounting in the Federal Capital Territory as frustrated residents have taken to the streets, accusing the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company of favouring wealthy districts while plunging ordinary neighbourhoods into darkness. The protest, which erupted over the weekend, saw angry voices from Kuje, Kubwa, and Dutse rallying against what they described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63882,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880\/revisions\/63882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}