PHED sets to reconnect Rivers’ communities after two-year disconnection
By Innocent Obasi
The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution (PHED) Plc is set to reconnect the communities in Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State to its network after more than two years of removal.
PHED Plc made this disclosure during a joint meeting between the electricity distribution company and the representatives of communities from Ndoki, Oyigbo Urban, Kom-Kom, Asa and other communities in Oyigbo at the company’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The management of the DisCo recalled how they worked assiduously for three months daily to bring the community onto the network in 2006, noting that it is wonderful to know that the community is coming back again on the DisCo’s network.
In addition, members of the community expressed delight about the fact that the company has considered them and decided to restore power to the community.
They commended what they described as “the excellent administrative skills” of the new management, noting that their experience since they walked into the meeting is a testament of the quality of the new leader on the saddle at PHED, recalling that it is a total departure from what they experienced in the past.
The community then thanked PHED and assured that they are willing and ready to provide the required atmosphere and environment needed to enable staff of the company to do their work in the community.
They also expressed readiness to pay their electricity bills, assuring that the company has nothing to worry about, as the company will keep to its words of doing the needful.
Meanwhile, the PHED management informed the community that given the success of the meeting and the assurances received, the company would move in to commence rehabilitation of the network before the end of the week.
Okechukwu Akara, Oyigbo local government chairman, expressed pleasure that PHED has achieved this feat, and explained that before the end of the week, he would call an enlarged stakeholders’ meeting of the community to share the news.