BAGUIO CITY: Employees and member-consumer-owners (MCOs) of Benguet Electric Cooperative (Beneco) gained control of the main headquarters of the electric cooperative at South Drive on Wednesday and booted out the administrators installed by the National Electrification Administration (NEA) on Monday.

Hundreds of MCOs accompanied Beneco employees in the peaceful takeover of the cooperative's main headquarters, which was taken by the camp of NEA project supervisor Omar Mayo and NEA-appointed general manager and former Presidential Communications Operations Office assistant secretary Ana Marie Rafael.