Power Minister Meets UCH Management, IBEDC Over Lingering Power Outage
Written by News Desk on February 10, 2025
Following the lingering crisis of Power Outage at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan and with a view to finding lasting solutions to the issue, the Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu and the Managing Director of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, Engineer Francis Agoh, have held a meeting with the Management of the UCH to restore power to the Institution within the next 48 hours.
The Minister who arrived at the University College Hospital at few minutes to 11 O’clock on Monday morning was received by the Management led by the Chief Medical Director, CMD, Professor Jessie Otegbayo.
Chief Adelabu said, the Federal Government was not comfortable with the situation of power outage in the health facility, hence, the need for its intervention.
He maintained that, there was the need for separation of energy among the UCH, College of Medicine and Commercial entities within the College Hospital, saying such a step will let each of them to take responsibility for its energy consumption.
Chief Adelabu warned anybody engaging in energy theft and fraud to desist as the government would not condone such act of economic sabotage.
The Minister added that, University of Ibadan and UCH had been captured for Energy Education Programme, EEP, in the second phase of the Programme which would be added advantage to the Institutions to have energy costs reduction.
On his part, the Managing Director of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, Engineer Francis Agoh assured the public that, with the intervention of the Minister, electricity would be restored and separation would be carried out as agreed.
Meanwhile, some students of the University of Ibadan led by their leader, Mr Aweda Bolaji staged a peaceful protest to complain of the hardship they have gone through after some months of experiencing darkness.
Chief Adelabu, CMD and the MD, IBEDC addressed the aggrieved students with a promise that, normalcy will be restored.
