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The built -in administrators of the Greater Mbaise Development Forum (GMDF) have intended cause at the Federal High Court, Abuja, looking for an order of Mandamus to force the federal government and its agencies to complete the power of transmission Mbaise long abandoned in the state of imo.
In the case, GMDF appointed the Minister of Power, the Nigeria transmission company (TCN), the Commission for the regulation of the Nigerian electricity (Nerc) and the prosecutor General of the Federation as defendants.
The group, made up of Mbaise elite inside and outside Nigeria, argued that the project, which began in 2009 in Ibeku, Abhh Mbaise, the area of the local government, was abandoned halfway, leaving the people of Mbaise in “perennial darkness” while other parts of the IMO state enjoy the offer of electricity.
According to the documents of the Court, large parts of agricultural land were acquired by the locals for the project with the promise of improving food, but since then the community has been left without access to both electricity and land seized.
The GMDF revealed that it had previously presented a petition to the national assembly on what described as “total abandonment, extortion and blackout” in Mbaise. During the hearings of 2023 and 2024, the commission for public petitions of the House of Representatives confirmed that the absence of a transmission station was the main cause of the blackout. TCN officials admitted the problem, promising to revive the project, but since then there have been no significant progress.
In the sworn declarations made by the GMDF representatives, the group said that it had issued communications on the supply and pre-action in May 2025 to the Ministry of Power, TCN and DEARN, but the agencies “have failed, refused and neglected” to act.
The case, supported by sworn declarations and legal presentations by the group consultant, the head Malachy Nwaekpe and the team, urged the court to force the federal agencies to immediately complete the transmission station and the Ibeku power line, underlining that the question is of urgent public interest.
No date has yet been set for the hearing.
