{"id":112360,"date":"2024-03-05T21:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T20:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc"},"modified":"2024-03-05T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:59:36","slug":"electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Electrocuted staff\u2019 not our employee \u2013 BEDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC PLC, has said that the victim of electrocution at a transformer in Evwreni, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, was not its staff member.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased, simply identified as Kingsley, was reconnecting a damaged cable at the 33KVA line transmitting current to Uwheru, Patani, Bomadi, and other communities in the state on Monday afternoon when he was electrocuted.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that residents of the community said the deceased had been known as a BEDC staff in the past years before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the unfortunate incident, the management of BEDC alleged that the victim entered its facility network illegally.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement made available to newsmen in Benin City, the BEDC Business Manager, Ughelli, Engr. Femi Makun, and the Regional Safety Officer, Warri Region, Mr. Solomon Eghwere, confirmed that the electrocuted person was not a staff of BEDC.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the unidentified person entered the BEDC network illegally. While on the pole, power supply was suddenly restored to the feeder and he was electrocuted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary investigation revealed that the victim was a non-BEDC staff and that his corpse had been taken away, possibly for burial, by sympathizers and community people,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC PLC, has said that the victim of electrocution at a transformer in Evwreni, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, was not its staff member. The deceased, simply identified as Kingsley, was reconnecting a damaged cable at the 33KVA line transmitting current to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":112359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,1376,254],"class_list":["post-112360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-bedc","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Electrocuted staff\u2019 not our employee \u2013 BEDC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC PLC, has said that the victim of electrocution at a trans ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Electrocuted staff\u2019 not our employee \u2013 BEDC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC PLC, has said that the victim of electrocution at a trans ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-05T20:45:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-05T22:59:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/sm_1709663130.570784.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018Electrocuted staff\u2019 not our employee \u2013 BEDC\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-05T20:45:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-05T22:59:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc\"},\"wordCount\":225,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/sm_1709663130.570784.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"BEDC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/electrocuted-staff-not-our-employee-bedc\",\"name\":\"\u2018Electrocuted staff\u2019 not our employee \u2013 BEDC - 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