SOKOTO State High Court has retrained the
Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) or any of its staff from interrupting
or disrupting power supply to the state or to any premises within the state
henceforth.
Similarly, a non-governmental
organisation, PHCN’s Electricity Consumers Association in Sokoto State, said it
would file a suit seeking N1 billion compensation from the PHCN for losses
incurred as a result of the blackout in the state.
With the court injunction handed
down the PHCN by the presiding judge of the court, Justice A’ishatu Sani
Dahiru, it was now expected that the week-long power outage in the state would
be over.
The injunction followed an ex parte
motion filed by the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr
Nuhu Adamu, on behalf of the state government, challenging the action of the
PHCN in throwing the state into a total blackout.
In the writ of summon, the state
government prayed for perpetual injunction restraining the PHCN, either by
itself, its servants, agents and or privies from distrupting the generation,
transmission, transformation, distribution and sale of electricity to consumers
forthwith in the state.
Members of the consumers
association, in a press conference held shortly after the ruling, expressed
determination to sue the PHCN for the death of five people, as well as the
losses incurred by some of its members as a result of the power outage.
The Tribune
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