By Suleiman Anyalewechi
Despite a subsisting court order restraining it from disrupting power supply services to its millions of customers, the Aba Power Limited, on Friday, February 21, 2025, embarked on a massive disconnection exercise in Aba and other parts of its area of operations.
This is even as the Management of the Power Distribution giant insisted that they have not been served any Court order.
The disconnection exercise was reportedly carried out simultaneously in all the nine Local Councils of Abia state that make up the Aba Ring Fence, the operational area of APL.
According to this Magazine’s findings, the operation has resulted in the disruption of power supply services to thousands of homes and business outfits.
The Source reports that an Abia High Court, Isiala Ngwa Division, had on Thursday, February 20, 2025 issued the restraining order in a motion ex-parte filed by the Aba Electricity Consumers Forum AECF, against the APL.
The trial Judge, Justice Enyinnaya Okezie had, in addition, directed all relevant court papers, including the restraining order to be served on the defendants – APL, and its parent body, Geometric by substituted means.
Similarly, Justice Okezie also ordered the defendants not to tamper with the power supply services to their consumers pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.
The claimants in their application argued that the planned mass disconnection exercise by the defendants, if allowed to go on, will have severe negative consequences on consumers and their businesses.
The Court adjourned to March 19, 2025, for the commencement of hearing on the motion notice.
But the APL in a statement issued on Thursday by its Management, shockingly described the Court order as fake ,which was equally secured by a non-existent group.
According to the Management, no Interim Court order has been served on the Company purportedly stopping it from either disconnecting its consumers or providing legitimate services under its licensed terms and conditions.
The Company described the claimants, the Aba Electricity Consumers Forum as “a faceless group of individuals ,parading an equally fake court order”.
Consequently, the power distribution outfit enjoined the public to disregard the recent radio announcements/news items ,and other related media publications, insisting they were sponsored by the “faceless group”.
The company further noted that as a law abiding organization, it will abide by any lawful order of a constitutionally constituted Court, calling on its customers to ignore what it described as as nothing other than an inciting propaganda.
The APL Management accused some people of only trying to hide under a nebulous entity to incite violence, and bring physical harm to the Aba Power staff and Assets.
It assured consumers of its readiness and commitment towards improved service delivery.
“Aba Power will continue to supply reliable and constant electricity to its customers within the nine Local Government Areas of Abia state (Ring Fence Area).
“The recent uninterrupted power supply for 1 month ,December 17, 2024 to January 16, 2025, remains a watershed in the history of power supply in Aba, and the rest of the Ring Fence Area and even Nigeria”, the APL Management stated.
However, despite the authenticity of its claim of remarkable improved service delivery, the Company may have been economical with the truth as regards the existence of the restraining court order and that of the claimants.
For one, the claimants, this magazine can authoritatively confirm, had, before now, been engaged in many troubling-shooting efforts with NEPA-EEDC and APL after inheriting EEDC.
It is therefore surprising for such a pressure group which activities predated APL to be described as non existent and fake.
Furthermore, checks by this medium equally confirmed the existence of the said Court order.
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