{"id":74975,"date":"2025-09-05T06:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74975"},"modified":"2025-09-05T06:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:13:38","slug":"kubwa-village-in-darkness-as-aedc-officials-residents-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/05\/kubwa-village-in-darkness-as-aedc-officials-residents-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubwa Village in Darkness as AEDC Officials, Residents Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Residents of Kubwa village in Abuja have been without electricity for two weeks after Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), officials were allegedly assaulted during a routine inspection.<\/p>\n<p>According to residents, the officials were checking for illegal connections when some youths blocked their visit to the community chief\u2019s palace, leading to a fracas.<\/p>\n<p>In response, AEDC disconnected the entire community from its transformer.<\/p>\n<p>A resident, Adamu Muhammad, said appeals to the local AEDC office yielded no result, as officials insisted the chief must intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The chief, Bala Yakubu, confirmed the blackout and said efforts were underway to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The community\u2019s youth leader, Buhari Abu, faulted AEDC\u2019s decision to punish the whole community, noting that many businesses had collapsed and goods spoiled due to the outage.<\/p>\n<p>An AEDC official in Gbazango confirmed the assault and said checks had revealed bypassed meters and unpaid bills for over a year.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that staff withdrew to avoid escalation and later cut off supply.<\/p>\n<p>The official added that customers with valid payment records could have their power restored individually, though residents claimed they were asked to wait until the matter is resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 Residents of Kubwa village in Abuja have been without electricity for two weeks after Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), officials were allegedly assaulted during a routine inspection. According to residents, the officials were checking for illegal connections when some youths blocked their visit to the community chief\u2019s palace, leading to a fracas. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-74975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975","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=74975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74977,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975\/revisions\/74977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}