The Special Adviser on Energy and Power to the Governor, Otayitie Eminefo, convened an emergency stakeholders town hall meeting in Ogori, which calmed frayed nerves and averted the planned protest.
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Dr Moses Arigu, Commissioner of Consumer Affairs at NERC, revealed this on Thursday while inaugurating the commission’s Customer Complaints Forum Office in Lafia.
The Chairman of the NERC, Prof. James Momoh, who stated this on Wednesday in Lokoja during the maiden edition of the forum said there were 2,165 unresolved complaints from consumers in Lokoja alone from January to September.
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company has asked owners of buildings and shops under its high tension wires to vacate immediately for their own safety.
The Managing Director of AEDC, Engineer Ernest Mupwaya, disclosed this on Sunday at the official presentation of the hosting flag for the 2018 national power safety summit to the firm.
Electricity Distribution Companies are being owed over N100billion by MDAs. This had contributed to the market shortfall being experienced in the sector
A statement from the management of AEDC in Abuja on Thursday said the installation of the meters was in line with its commitment to metering all the customers under its jurisdiction
Mupwaya said the meters were in addition to the 57,000 installed for customers through the Credited Advance Payment for Metering Implementation
The other defendants listed in the suit are Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, Rural Electrification Agency, Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission and the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency. The rest are Consumer Protection Council, Minister of Power as well as the Attorney General of the Federation
The statement said further that the AEDC Board, at its sitting of July 21, 2016, equally approved a new Management Structure for the Company with a Corporate Services Directorate created to supervise five different functions, including Human Resources, Procurement, Government and Regulatory Relations, Public Relations and Fleet and Facilities Management
He said the residents were prepared to assist AEDC to purchase concrete poles worth N500,000 in order to fast-track electrification of the community.
Iyodo appealed to the management of AEDC to supply the community with two more transformers to boost power generation in the community
The leader of the protesters, Princess Oge, told the News Agency of Nigeria that AEDC sends them electricity bills regularly without regular supply of electricity
He observed that insufficient power supply by AEDC has always inflicted cyclical and multiplier effects on all aspects of human endeavours, giving instances of the Niger State Water Board which cannot pump water to Minna metropolis because of non-supply of power to the pumping station at Chanchaga Water Works
Some residents of Chibiri, the Kuje suburb, complained loudly that the workers invaded the village betweenThursday and Friday last week, openly demanding between N2,000 and N5,000 from each of the houses to spare them the embarrassment of disconnecting their electricity
Isaac Abegye, the Deputy President of the Northern Zone of the union, said the privatisation of the sector had brought untold hardship to the electricity employees
It said the company tripled its customers’ bills issued in September 2014 and issued it as bills for October 2014 without evidence of a commensurate increase in electricity supply within the same period