Jim Nwobodo’s house without electricity for one year

Former Governor of the old Anam­bra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo yesterday raised the alarm on the injustices done to him by the Enugu Electric­ity Distribution Company (EEDC),

saying that the company not only seized his four plots of land but also cut him off from the electricity supply in the last one year.

Senator Nwobodo, a chieftain of the All Pro­gressives Congress (APC), and Honourary Doctorate degree award recipient from Chukwuemeka Od­umegwu Ojukwu Univer­sity said he was amazed by such humiliation to a se­nior citizen and a former Governor of a state.

Nwobodo informed The Authority that he willingly gave out the par­cel of land to a Federal Government Parastatal as tenant of will 15 years ago but when it was bought over by Sir Emeka Offor , he withdrew his property and asked them to vacate but rather than come for negotiation, EEDC threatened to cut him off from their electricity sup­ply and carried out their treat.

He said he was shocked such could happen to a former Governor and a senior citizen wondering what ordinary citizens must have been suffering in the hands of the EEDC. He said he was without electricity in the past 1 year whereas Senator Ken Nnamani is enjoying steady electricity supply from the facilities in his compound.

He asked Offor and Nnamani to relinquish his property for him or meet him at the law court as he would not tolerate the hu­miliation any longer. He reminded that whether in his plots or outside his plots, that EEDC was supposed to supply him electricity like other Ni­gerians.

‘’I gave this land to PHCN but things have changed. Why would they seize my property and re­fuse to negotiate? He que­ried.