Residents of an Anambra community, Umuawulu, in Awka South Local Government have threatened to sack the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company in Akwa if it refuses to restore supply in the community within two weeks.
According to Daily Trust, in a letter to EEDC by the Umuawulu Electricity Consumers Forum jointly signed by coordinator/convener Comrade Osita Obi and secretary Anazor Kingsley Onyebuchi, copied to state Commissioner of Police and the Director, Department of State Security Anambra command, the community requested for the immediate restoration of electricity supply.
The community also revealed that it has settled all its debts and met all the necessary requirements for the debulking of six transformers to the community.
“Enumeration and verifications have also been concluded for all the six transformers . Electricity consumers in the Communities have paid for the meters, some installed while some are yet to be installed,” it stated.
It was also gathered that the EEDC had demanded the community to pay 70 per cent of the total bills and that the community has paid a sum worth over N22 million.
Reacting, Head, Corporate Communications, EEDC, Emeka Ezeh, said the company has energized the transformers that met the required conditions
“The community in question took us to NERC and the resolution was that they should acquire meters through MAP. Some have complied and they have had their meters installed and installation is still ongoing. We have also energized the transformer that met with the conditions, which is to obtain an undertaking from individual customers that are not able to pay for meters, to connect them and bill them on estimation, while those not willing to be on estimation will request to be disconnected,” he said.
