The residents of Magboro in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State have been experiencing power outages from the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company. The IBEDC has been extorting the residents of Magboro with crazy monthly electricity bills which they don't supply to the community, all houses (over 100,000) receive an estimated monthly electricity bill ranging from N4,000 to N10,000.

Although the IBEDC maintains that the power supply disconnection is a result of a variety of reasons which they have provided in the past, the fact remains that there has been a record of a grossly subnormal electric power supply. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), earlier this year, the IBEDC introduced an arbitrary sharing formula which stated that the Magboro community would enjoy electricity for just eight (8) hours in forty-eight (48) hours, as against the previous arrangement of eight hours in 36 hours.

It is worthy to note that even in this arrangement, the residents have complained that there has been hardly a time where the residents enjoyed electricity for eight hours within the earlier scheduled 36 hours or the present 48 hours.

The seeming sad side of this situation is that even though the residents of Magboro Community experiences severe power outages on a steady basis, the electricity bills presented to the residents are ridiculous and not compliant with the requirements of the National Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC)

Several residents, including one David Ajayi, a member of the Community Development Committee (CDC), have expressed their strong displeasure towards the exploitative tendencies of the IBEDC. It has been gathered that the community collectively bought poles, wires, and transformers without any form of compensation from the Distribution Company.

The Magboro community is  seeking an electricity billing system that is compliant with NERC requirement for estimated billing and commensurate to the power supplied to the Magboro community.