Residents of Ungwar Yazawa community in Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Monday stormed the head office of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) in Lafia to protest over perennial power outage in the area.

Spokesperson of the community, Shuibu Zanwa-Buba, told journalists during the protest they had been without electricity supply for over eight months.

He said the protest became necessary, alleging that the AEDC had not shown commitment towards addressing their plight.

Mr Zanwa-Buba said the electricity transformer in the area spoilt about eight months ago after which the community approached the Nasarawa government for assistance and eventually got a new one.

“When the transformer got bad, we wrote to Gov. Abdullahi Sule and he graciously approved and released the electricity transformer to us for over two months now, but AEDC has refused to connect us.

“AEDC seems to be deliberately working against the interest of the community for the reasons best known to it,” he said.

He appealed to Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to call AEDC to order considering the untold hardship the people of the community had been passing through.

Responding, AEDC Manager, Human Resources, Zainab Ibrahim, appealed for calm and promised that the transformer would be powered before the close of work on Monday.

(NAN)