Electricity Distribution Staff Stoned For Sharing Bills During COVID-19 Lockdown

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A staff of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, Ayorinde Olajide, may partially go blind after he went to distribute electricity bills to residents during the lockdown over COVID-19 and he was brutally attacked and stoned like a common thief.

 P.M.EXPRESS reports that Olajide was attacked by aggrieved residents of Isale Igbeyin/Grammar School areas of Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday April 24th.

It was gathered that the residents, who were battling to survive at this trying period of stay-at-home, vented their anger on the victim who they felt brought another problem of paying for electricity bills.

Ayorinde while narrating his ordeal, said he was out distributing bills to the residents who were at home due to the lockdown when he was attacked.

“I was busy distributing electricity bills to houses around Isale -Igbehin and Grammar School area of Abeokuta and I was attacked by a group of people asking me to stop the unnecessary distribution of bills. Before I could even explain to them, they started throwing stones at me which affected my left eye. I was badly beaten without pity for discharging my duty. Even when my boss arrived at the scene to rescue me into her vehicle, a guy came and hit me on my left eye. I was later rescued by my boss, who then reported the attack at the Ibara Police Station after which I was taken to a nearby hospital for medical attention” he said.