- Ibadan residents protest poor supply
- Lament over poor services from IBEDC
- Allege mass customer disconnection by IBEDC officials
Ibadan residents on Sunday came out en masse to protest poor supply by Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) amongst other complaints. The residents lament exploitation and mass disconnection of customers by the staff of IBEDC.
In attendance at the protests were representatives of Affordable and Regular Electricity (CARE), Comrade Abiodun Bamigboye and Comrade Olaniyi Abdulwasiu. Comrade Abdulwasiu alleged that the IBEDC, in breach of the pending lawsuit filed by over 40 communities in Ibadan, has carried out a mass disconnection exercise of customers.
Abdulwasiu further demands the cancellation of all debt based on estimated billing prior to the installation of prepaid meters in the area. ”It is important to state that members of Ibadan South-East electricity consumers forum were compelled to approach the court and filed a suit against IBEDC because the distribution company failed to comply with two different judgments earlier delivered by Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC.” he said.
”According to these two judgments, the IBEDC was mandated to stop the unlawful imposition of estimated billing systems on the electricity consumers in the local government and ordered that it must ensure that all the electricity consumers in the local government are metered at no cost,” Abdulwasiu added.
”The demands of the Association remain: No to the crazy and outrageous estimated billing system. Immediate supply of free pre-paid metre to all electricity consumers in the area.”, he said.