Akin Kuponiyi Ijeshaland which comprises six local governments in Osun State, southwest Nigeria, and two major towns Okemesi-Ekiti and Efon Alaye in Ekiti State, have been plunged into darkness by Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company saddled with the responsibility for electricity distribution in the state. According to a prominent Ijesha indigene who preferred to be anonymous, what triggered of this alleged “callous action” as described by the Ijeshas started last Monday when some youths in some parts of Ilesha town, the headquarters of the Ijeshas, protested the arbitrary and bogus bills they were asked to pay despite poor power supply, a
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