The consumer protection agency locked down Ikeja Electric's head office in Lagos after the power company kept ignoring orders to split one hotel account into 20 separate residential meters. Providence Real Estate got stuck without electricity for over two years, even though they paid everything the utility asked for, and the building sat empty the whole time.
Ikeja Electric claims the hotel structure never actually got converted into separate apartments, as the customer said, so there's no physical setup to support 20 different connections. Corporate Communications Head Kingsley Okotie said they're ready to work with the customer once the property gets properly configured for multiple units, but the company needs to verify that the residential partitioning exists first.
The FCCPC gave warnings back in April and another compliance notice in October before finally sealing the place. Ikeja Electric can access its control room to keep the lights on for other customers, but the seal stays until they prove they followed through on the regulator's orders.
Ikeja Electric claims the hotel structure never actually got converted into separate apartments, as the customer said, so there's no physical setup to support 20 different connections. Corporate Communications Head Kingsley Okotie said they're ready to work with the customer once the property gets properly configured for multiple units, but the company needs to verify that the residential partitioning exists first.
The FCCPC gave warnings back in April and another compliance notice in October before finally sealing the place. Ikeja Electric can access its control room to keep the lights on for other customers, but the seal stays until they prove they followed through on the regulator's orders.
