Epileptic power supply: IPOB threatens to shutdown EEDC in S’East

“EEDC is defrauding her consumers with exorbitant electricity bills without supplying the power. The company has refused to give her consumers prepaid electricity meters, but keeps giving illegal estimated bills.

“In many communities in the Southeast, EEDC gives community bills running into hundreds of thousands of naira. Whether the light was provided or not, any village that didn’t pay the illegal estimated bills will have the irregular light supply disconnected.

“Communities buy their own power transformers and electricity cables at the same time pay corrupt EEDC Company to link power to the community. Afterwards, EEDC will bill the same village for the same power supply.

“EEDC dismantled some community’s faulty transformers for repairs and maintenance, but fails to return it for years, some 10 years and some five years, till date those transformers were not restored nor seen.

“How can our people be paying for lights they did not consume? How wicked is EEDC and its management? IPOB calls on EEDC to stop defrauding our people or exit the Southeast region or provide lights to the citizens,” the group demanded.

Similarly, IPOB has berated the Anambra State government for signing an MOU and paying a contract sum of over N100 billion to EEDC to supply 24 hours light in Anambra State.