Consumers on Saturday slammed Eko Electricity Distribution Company and Ikeja Electric Plc for the epileptic power supply in Lagos State in the past weeks.

Some of the customers made their views known in separate interviews while reacting to the collapse of the national grid on Friday.

Eko DisCo, had confirmed that the grid collapse occurred at 6:30 p.m. and was responsible for the outage being experienced by customers within its network.

However, some customers lamented that they had not received power supply from the DisCos for days before the incident.

“Even before the national grid collapse, we in Ibeju-lekki; Abijo down to Awoyaya didn’t have light for the past four days,” Mutiu Oyekan, a businessman, lamented.

Similarly, Ifeoma Ike, a hairdresser in Amuwo-Odofin, area said the power situation had been on and off for weeks within the axis.

“They just flash the light and take it again after a few minutes. After another three or more hours they will repeat it and they want us to continue to pay for services not rendered,” she said.

Another resident, Ismail Anu, also confirmed that the Ebute Metta area had been in darkness for over a week.

Godwin Aya, Founder, Electricity Access Forum, said some parts of Meiran, Iyana-Ipaja, Egbeda and Agege under Ikeja Electric had been experiencing blackouts since Monday.

“We have received complaints from customers in these areas that they have been in total darkness for days now.

“It seems DisCo is only interested in collecting bills from customers without improving supply,” he said.

On his part, Adeola Samuel-Ilori, the national coordinator, All Electricity Consumers Protection Forum, said power generation was yet to peak in the country following weeks of instability.

He explained that the drop in power generation was responsible for the poor supply of power to customers by the DisCos.

(NAN)