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#EndSARS Protests: We Are Not Responsible For Power Cut At Lekki Toll Gate EKEDC -
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#EndSARS protests: We are not responsible for power cut at Lekki Toll Gate – EKEDC -



Eko Electricity Distribution Company says it was not responsible for the disconnection of power supply to Lekki Toll Gate on Tuesday, which occurred shortly before #EndSARS protesters were attacked at the location.

EKEDC General Manager, Corporate Communications, Godwin Idemudia, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that youths protesting against police brutality came under gun fire while the light within the vicinity was turned off.
Idemudia said the Electricity Distribution Company was saddened by the gruesome events that happened at the Lekki Toll Gate.
He said that the DisCo was not in any way culpable.
“We will like to respectfully and categorically state that EKEDC does not handle power supply to the Lekki Toll Gate and they independently generate their own power supply through Independent Power Projects (IPPs).
“The rest of the Lekki area supplied by EKEDC had power supply from us throughout the night, save for any areas where there were technical faults.
“We are extremely saddened by the turn of events yesterday and we stand with all well-meaning Nigerians who want a better future for our dear nation,” he said.
Idemudia said EKEDC would continue to provide best possible electricity supply, customer service and fault resolution for as long as it was safe for its staff to leave their homes and families and arrive at their work locations safely.

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Bill Gates' Father Dies At 94.
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William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist who was the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94.
Gates died Monday at his beach home in Washington state from Alzheimer’s disease, his family announced Tuesday, CBS News reports.
In an obituary, the family credited the patriarch with a “deep commitment to social and economic equity,” noting that he was responsible for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s first efforts to improve global health. The family also touched on his advocacy for progressive taxation, especially his unsuccessful efforts to pass a state income tax on the wealthy in Washington.
“My dad’s wisdom, generosity, empathy, and humility had a huge influence on people around the world,” Bill Gates wrote in a tribute.
Born in 1925, Gates Sr. grew up in Bremerton, Washington, where his parents owned a furniture store. During World War II, he joined the Army following his freshman year at the University of Washington and was en route to Japan when it surrendered in 1945.
He served a year in war-torn Tokyo before returning to the United States and resuming his education, his family said. After earning his law degree in 1950, he began working in private practice and as a part-time Bremerton city attorney.
He formed a Seattle law firm with two other partners that eventually became Preston Gates and Ellis — now known as K & L Gates, one of the world’s largest law firms. The firm was one of the first to work with the region’s technology industry.
Gates Sr. met his first wife, Mary Maxwell, at the University of Washington. They had two daughters and a son — Gates Jr. — and remained married until her death in 1994. Two years later he married Mimi Gardner, then the director of the Seattle Art Museum, with whom he spent the last quarter-century of his life.
“When I was a kid, he wasn’t prescriptive or domineering, and yet he never let me coast along at things I was good at, and he always pushed me to try things I hated or didn’t think I could do (swimming and soccer, for example),” Gates Jr. wrote in the tribute.

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