NDPHC commences power supply project in Osun community

The Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) has flagged off the construction of a new 15 kilometres 33kV line from Ile-Ife Transmission Substation to Garage-Olode Town, Ife South LGA of Osun State.

It said the project when completed, will restore power supply to the area which has been without electricity supply for over 10 years.

Speaking at the event, the Executive Director, Networks, NDPHC, Engr. IfeOluwa Oyedele said the distribution intervention project also includes the rehabilitation of the 15km 33kV Ifetedo/Garage-Olode power line.

Oyedele stated that the project would see the dualisation of 3km of 33KVA line from Mayfair roundabout to Modakeke, adding that 8 Nos of 300 KVA and 8 Nos of 500KVA distribution transformers will be supplied and installed in the community.

He described the project as historic as it marked, “the commencement of the construction of a project that is conceived and will be implemented to improve lives and economic activities in Garage-Olode Town in Osun State.”

Oyedele commended the Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola for pushing hard for the project.

According to him, “Following the intervention of the Governor of Osun State, we at NDPHC, in keeping with our mandate to improve electricity infrastructure in Nigeria visited Garage-Olode Community for location inspection and discovered that the Community electricity supply is being fed from old Akure Transmission Substation which has been dilapidated for a very long time.”

He further explained that in scoping the project, the company had an engagement with the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC).

“We have been assured that the intervention of NDPHC in the improvement of electricity infrastructure in this Community will align with their proposed infrastructure upgrade in the Community and the entire state.”

While flagging off the project, the State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola who flagged off the project commended the people’s patience in the past ten years without electricity supply.

“For me, today is a day of joy as history is being made. I am elated that we have now brought to an end the torturous journey that left you, our dear people, in darkness for over ten years,” he stated.

He said the power intervention efforts will also help power towns and villages such as Iyanfoworogi, Aye Coker, Aye-Oba, Wanikin Eleja, Egbejoda, Idi Obi and Ali Ahanran in this first phase, and when completed, the project will cover the entire Ife South Local Government and the LCDA.

Governor Oyetola said the project occupied a strategic place in his Administration’s agenda to empower the benefiting communities to contribute substantially to the development of the state.

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