Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Court restrains PHCN from disrupting power supply in Sokoto


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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