- Another escapes with serious injuries
An employee of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) was stabbed to death while disconnecting the electricity of customers who failed to pay their bills.
The AEDC employees were on duty in the Kabusa area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, when a man attacked them from behind on Tuesday afternoon, February 25.
One of them was killed while another escaped with serious injuries.
The body of the deceased AEDC official has reportedly been deposited at the mortuary in Garki Hospital, Area 8, Abuja. The assailant has been arrested and is in police custody.
The Head of Corporate Communication aofAEDC, Mr. Oyebode Fadipe, confirmed the attack.
Fadipe said two of their workers were attacked; while one is dead, the other is receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja.
He added that the attacks on their staffers had become recurrent and rampant.
Fadipe said AEDC would pursue the case to the logical conclusion, and will no longer take the recurrent attacks on their officials lightly.