Ogun community thanks Airtel for restoring electricity 15 yrs after disconnection

Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has been
commended by members and leaders of a community in Ogun State,
Isokan community, for helping to reconnect the community to the public
power grid 15 years after it was disconnected due to equipment failure.

The situation of the Isokan community was brought to the attention of the
telco after a member heard about the Airtel Touching Lives initiative and
beckoned on the organization to intervene.

The story was featured in an episode of the award-winning television
programme, ‘Airtel Touching Lives’, which aired earlier in the year on
national TV and showed community members narrating how livelihood had
been adversely impacted over the years, throwing homes, families and
businesses in distress.

During the moving episode, Airtel pledged to support the community with
the sum of N7, 000, 000 (seven million naira) to bankroll the electrification
project which had been abandoned due to lack of funds. The telco has
since delivered on its promise, restoring power to the community following
the erection of 29 utility poles and connection of the high tension and low
tension cables to the main power grid transformer.

The people of Isokan showered encomiums on Airtel for restoring their long
lost hope and giving hundreds of families a chance at a better life as
businesses can now thrive with the prospect of stable electricity in the
community.

Commenting on the project, Secretary, Electrification of Isokan Community,
Mr. Bamidele Olusegun Moses, said the intervention is life-changing,
thanking Airtel for truly touching the lives of those in dire need without the
attendant fanfare.

“Airtel Touching Lives has really touched our lives beyond our imagination.
It still feels unreal because we had been in this situation for so long and
nobody came to our rescue. I just want to thank Airtel for such generosity.
This means so much to the people of Isokan. May God bless Airtel always,”
he said.

Also commenting on the intervention, the Director, Corporate
Communications & CSR, Airtel Nigeria, Emeka Oparah, said Airtel is
committed to creating prosperity opportunities for Nigerians and providing
platforms that will make lives better for more Nigerians.

“The Airtel Touching Lives initiative has a singular vision of providing relief
for communities and individuals who require them. We are excited that life
has returned to the Isokan Community and we will not relent in our efforts
of reaching out to underprivileged persons and communities across the
country,” he said.

Airtel Touching Lives is an inspiring corporate social responsibility initiative
that seeks to offer practical relief, succor, hope, opportunities and credible
platforms to liberate and empower the underprivileged, disadvantaged and
hard-to-reach persons in the society.