the council headquarters in the early hours of Monday and set some structures ablaze, including the EEDC facility and vehicles.The spokesperson for the EEDC, Emeka Ezeh, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the incident shocked the electricity distribution company.
Mr Ezeh said the arsonists inflicted machete cuts on a security official at the company’s office for refusing to surrender his rifle to them. The EEDC spokesperson said they made unsuccessful efforts to reach the Anambra State Fire Service during the attack. “It later took the intervention of the Commissioner for Utilities, Anambra State, Julius Chukwuemeka, at about 9.05 a.m. to bring the fire service team down to the scene of the incident,” he said.
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