An angry electricity consumer in Kabusa, an Abuja suburb, has allegedly attacked workers of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) killing one of them and seriusly injuring another.
While details of what transpired are still sketchy, the attacker was said to have stabbed the victims from the back.
The General Manager, Media and Communication of AEDC, Mr Oyebode Fadipe who confirmed the incident said the utility staff were not in a fight or that the workers were disconnecting the attacker’s house.
He just came from behind and stabbed the two workers, he explained.
“One of them has died and the other is receiving treatment in a hospital”, he said
He, however, confirmed that the culprit, identified as, Oputa Vitus has been arrested by the police.
In a terse statement by one of the staff who prefers anonymity, the worst happened in AEDC as the company has lost one of its staff.
Two of them were stabbed. While one died, the other survived.
“At last, the worst has happened. Two of our staff were stabbed today in Kubusa by an aggrieved customer who stabbed the deceased from behind. While one of them died, the other is still receiving treatment at the hospital” he said.
The attack came a few hours after the CEO of AEDC, Engr. Ernest Mupwaya expressed concerns over growing attacks on the company’s workers.
Mupwaya, who briefed journalists in Abuja on the process of tariff increase, urged consumers to channel their complaints through customer care centre or any other system put in place by the company.
