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The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has been given an ultimatum by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to improve its electricity supply in the Southeast or face the consequences.
In a statement issued by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful which was sent to The Eastern Updates on Sunday, IPOB accused EEDC of “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,” the statement said.
“In many communities in the Southeast, EEDC gives community bills running in 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.”
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IPOB also alleged that EEDC had dismantled some community transformers for repairs and maintenance but failed to return them for years, leaving the communities in darkness.
“Emeka Offor and his company EEDC have their cup full, and we are going to show them that the people are the owners of the region, and they are reaping Ndigbo off with abysmal power supply and exorbitant bills.
“How can our people be paying for lights they did not consume? How wicked is EEDC and its management?” the statement said.
IPOB called on EEDC to provide adequate electricity supply or exit the Southeast region, warning that it would “chase EEDC out” if the company failed to meet its demands.
We will welcome any company that will invest in power generation and distribution to quicken the industrialization and development of the Southeast. “But if they continue with the abysmal light supply in the Southeast, IPOB will have no option than to shut down EEDC offices in the Southeast in the shortest possible time.
