He added that IBEDC also needs to address high electricity bills to prevent shortchanging the public.
He lamented that energy theft, vandalism, and illicit metres had grown the customer’s debts to IBEDC in Ogun to over N67 billion.
The electricity distribution company said plans were in place to address any electrical fault that may arise during the period.
One of the suspects had collected N13 million under false pretense of wanting to buy five plots of land for his victim in Ikorodu, Lagos.
Several efforts made to get IBEDC to resolve the power crisis was fruitless, according to the community.
IBEDC says this is due to the planned disconnection of its feeders from the national grid by the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s (TCN) due to poor remittances.
He said that the recently concluded national mass metering programme by the federal government was another avenue customers could get meters.
IBEDC said customers can get metres with N63,000 for single phase and N117,000 for three phases.
The Oyo State Secretariat and some communities in Ibadan, the state capital, have been thrown into total darkness due to a power outage.
Mr Abubakar said the federal government had begun the construction of a 132 kilovolts transmission line in the state.
