Ebonyi State government at the weekend ordered the people of the state to stop paying electricity bills to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) until the company provides prepaid meters for the people of the state and improve electricity supply in the state.
The government said it will no longer watch its citizens being
ex-ploited and maltreated by the power distribution company. But the
EEDC had written to the state government and threatened to throw the
state into total darkness following the government directive to the
people of the state not to pay their electricity bills until the company
improves its services and supply prepaid meters to the state.
Speaking during a meeting between officials of the distribution
company and the state government, the state Commissioner for Power,
Chief Emmanuel Uguru, ordered the company not to embark on any
disconnection of electricity in any parts of the state.
He warned the company not to misunderstand the peaceful disposition
of the people, adding that the government will continue to engage the
distribution company in the overall interest of the people.
“If Ebonyi State doesn’t get regular power supply, do not expect
further payment of electricity bills by the people of the state. And I
want to say explicitly that the deadline for supply of prepaid meters to
the people is November.“After November, nobody, both state, individuals and government, will pay a dime as electricity bill. We have endured enough since 2014 when these prepaid meters were paid for. 2015, Ebonyi people endured, 2016, Ebonyi people endured. We have endured a lot and enough is enough,” he said.
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