Ilorin Experiences Partial Blackout Amid IBEDC Staff Protest Over Working Conditions

Date: 2025-02-07

A partial blackout occurred in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, after a protest by some employees of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) over alleged poor and unfriendly working conditions.

Witnesses reported that the disgruntled workers prevented customers from conducting business at the company's premises. It was gathered that the protesting staff locked the gates of the company's two business offices located at Challenge and Baboko New Market in Ilorin.

The protesters, who carried placards with various inscriptions, stated that they were demonstrating against inadequate welfare facilities provided by the company.

Some placards read: “IBEDC should prioritise staff welfarism; IBEDC: no more half salary; IBEDC: pay our PFA, Union and Cooperative deductions now and; do you expect 100 per cent performance without materials and tools,” among others.

Speaking with our correspondent, the secretary of the state branch of National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), Comrade Ayodele Peters, said the workers were being paid half salary by the management as monthly compensation.

The secretary said: “All deductions made by the company such as pension funds, union fees and cooperative contributions were not remitted by the company to the appropriate bodies.

“So, that made it difficult for our pensioners to access their money from the pension managers while our members could not get loans from the cooperative society because the management of IBEDC did not credit the account of these bodies after deduction from the workers salaries.

“The management laid off some workers of the company on Monday while rumors was rife that more workers would get their letters of sack today or tomorrow adding that all these laid off workers would not have access to what the management had deducted from their salaries when they were in service because they have not credited the pension managers.”

As at the time of filing this report, efforts to get the reaction of the management proved abortive as the phone number of the Corporate Affairs manager of IBEDC, Olori Busolami Tunwase, was unreachable.

Meanwhile, the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), has appealed to the IBEDC to ensure adequate power supply to the community.

The national president of the union, AbdulMumini AbdulMalik, in a letter, expressed the dissatisfaction of the people of Ilorin Emirate on th poor power supply to Ilorin since 2024.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Kwara Politics     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Clara Nwachukwu     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Ajikobi     Ahmed Bayero     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Kwara 2019     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     GAMA     Bola Shagaya     Sidikat Akaje     Bashirat Bola Bello     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Ayo Salami     Wasiu Onidugbe     Kwarareports.com     Muhammed Danjuma     Kazeem Adekanye     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     EndSARS     Abatemi Usman     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Basit Olatunji     Simeon Sayomi     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Egbewole     Mohammed Yisa     Oke-Ode     Kishira     Aliyu Alhassan     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Tunde Kazeem     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Apata Ajele Secondary School     CT Ayeni     Matthew Babaoye     Bello John Olanrewaju     Moremi High School     Olupako Of Share     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Sa\'adu Salau     Muhammed Akanbi     T And K FOODS     Abraysports FC     Erin-ile     KWASAA     SARS     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Kunle Akogun     JAMB     Oniyangi     Michael Nzwekwe     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Erubu Oba Zubair     Makama Of Kaiama     Tsaragi-Share     Aliyu Sabi     Paul Odama     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Mohammed Ibrahim     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Village Alive Development Association    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Maigida     Hassanat Bello     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Hussein Oloyede     PPS     Emir Of Kano     Shoprite     KWASSIP     Olabimpe Olani     Chief Imam Of Offa     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Jide Ashonibare     Gbenga Awoyale     Abdulfatai Baakini     Playing Host     Kumbi Titiloye     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Olateju Lukman     United Nigeria Airline     Hassan Oyeleke     Balikis Jawondo     Olam Food Ingredients     Edret Sabi Abel     Radio SBS     Saba Mamman Daniel     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Ahmad Lawan     Olatunji Moronfoye     ITEM 7     Segun Adeniyi     Ado Ibrahim     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Trader Moni     Owu Fall     Umar Adelodun     Ile Arugbo     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Saad Belgore     Na\'Allah     ENetSuD     Kolawole Bashirat     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Saka Balikis Kehinde     FERMA     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Government High School Adeta     Olatunde Olukoya     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Gabriel Fashanu     Apaokagi     Ibrahim Abikan     Hussein Olokooba     CBT     Ajidagba     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Oloje     Yakubu Dogara     Nagode     Kamoru Kadiri     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Alabi Lawal     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Bello John Olanrewaju     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Ilorin Metro Park     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Sulaiman Gado     Omotoso     Labour Party