WATCH THE VIDEO HERE The Lagos State Electricity Board has lamented that about N1.7bn is lost to vandalisation and theft of streetlight infrastructure and other electrical installations annually. The Public Lighting Representative of the board, Omotayo Halid, made this known on Wednesday during a Stakeholders Town Hall Engagement for the Protection of Streetlights Infrastructure, held at Y Arena, Ikoyi, Lagos. The electricity board sought the support of community stakeholders, including community development associations and community development committees, in safeguarding streetlight infrastructures needed to keep the environments lit at night. Halid said, “Let me begin by sharing a certain statistic with you. The Lagos State Electricity Board alone loses N1.7bn every year to theft and vandalisation of electrical installations across the state. You can imagine if this was used to address other infrastructures across the state like education, and healthcare.”
LAGOS: N1.7b lost to vandalism yearly – Board
