The Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, to provide electricity or exit the region for reliable supplier.
The group called on the Chairman of the Enugu DisCo, Emeka Offor, and its management to stop defrauding the people, adding that residents had been compelled to pay illegal estimated bills.
In a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful; IPOB calls for steady lights in the region by EEDC or exit the region for reliable companies to take over.
“EEDC is defrauding her consumers with exorbitant electricity bills without supplying the power. The company has refused to give its consumers prepaid electricity meters but keeps giving illegal estimated bills.”
“Communities buy their power transformers and electricity cables. At the same time, they pay the corrupt EEDC Company to link power to the community. Afterwards, EEDC will bill the same village for the same power supply.”
The statement added, “EEDC dismantled some communities’ faulty transformers for repairs and maintenance but failed to return them for years.
“EEDC’s cup is full and we are going to show them that people are owners of the region and they are reaping Ndigbo off with abysmal power supply and exorbitant bills.”
“The abysmal and unavailable power supply from EEDC will frustrate economic activities and industrialization of Biafra Land. EEDC, therefore, must be kicked out.”
The pro-Biafran group partly tied the DisCo’s “over N12 billion” debt owed to the Transmissions Company of Nigeria to the epileptic distribution of adequate electricity in the region.
“EEDC’s indebtedness to the Transmissions Company of Nigeria (TCN) to over N12 billion, led to TCN restricting EEDC from using some of their facilities in Enugu. As it stands, EEDC is struggling with corporate integrity issues and liquidity to run its operations.
“The pertinent question to ask is, “Does EEDC have the capacity to distribute adequate electricity to the Southeast with her grossly insufficient budget?
“It is obvious that EEDC is fully aware of her limited capacity to deliver steady power yet they keep going around the Southeast defrauding and extorting the Governors and citizens in the name of power supply. The Federal Government has deregulated the power sector. Monopoly in the power sector is over,” the statement noted.
