Court Restrains BEDC From Disconnecting UNIMEDTH

Mohammed Shosanya

An Ondo State High Court in Akure has restrained Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) from disconnecting electricity at the state-owned University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Ondo, over alleged indebtedness.

The court also stopped BEDC from tampering with the cable that supplied electricity to the hospital.

Justice B. J. Akinwumi granted the ex-parte order in a suit filed by the hospital through its counsel, Iyiola Afolabi.

The hospital sued BEDC over fear of disconnection of its power owing to alleged indebtedness.

It prayed for an order of interim injunction restraining the defendant, its agents, servants, privies, staff or officers or anybody claiming through or for the defendant from disconnecting or threatening to disconnect electricity supply to the claimant, pending the determination of the motion on notice.

The motion was brought under order 20 Rule 1 (1) and (2), Rule 15 of the Ondo State High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2019 and under the inherent jurisdiction of the court.