By Cynthia Alo
Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc (BEDC) has said it has developed a debt restructuring scheme for customers to enjoy discounts in a bid to address growing outstanding electricity consumption debts. The company also announced an extension period of debt contract up to a maximum of 60 months, depending on customers’ debt profile in combination with the down payment.
In a statement the company explained, “The Debt Rescheduling Scheme is in line with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Act which mandates that electricity operators recover costs on prudent investment to be able to provide quality services to customers.” The statement disclosed that the scheme has taken off across the franchise states of Delta, Edo, Ekiti and Ondo.
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Occupants of the new Orisumbare Shopping complex in Osogbo on Thursday, accused the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, of fraudulently inflating its electricity bills.
The occupants of the government-owned complex blocked the entrance of the IBEDC headquarters in Osun, alleging that the electricity company illegally altered its tariff twice within without informing the management of the market.
The IBEDC, according to the occupants, alleged that some months ago the tariff was changed from 42 to 58 without notifying them and consequently, altered from 58 to 61 on their transformer.
Speaking with the chairman of the electricity committee of new Orisumbare, Oni Folorunsho, lamented, “what happened was, the transformer we are using seems to have been tampered with.
LAGOS – A new report has revealed that six National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) thermal power plants and scores of power substations have put paid to the nation’s power grid currently at about 7,600MW energy delivery capacity.
The NIPP project report from 2015 to 2021, also said Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), a key intervention agency in the power sector, contributed over 3,400 megawatts (MW) to the national grid and has delivered 22 substations since 2015.
It said that the NIPP programme is currently in its second phase that traverses transmission projects, distribution and renewable energy.
In the first phase, NDPHC which is owned by the three tiers of government kick started the first phase of NIPP with the construction of 10 gas-fired power plants, especially in the Niger Delta.
He urged electricity consumers not to panic at the price review in July, saying it is a minor review that is aimed at bridging the gap in the cost of electricity purchased by the distribution companies from the Generation companies.
According to the statement, at various levels of policy discourse in the power sector reforms, the ministers of power, Engr. Mamman Sale and Mr Jedy-Agba had urged electricity consumers to be calm, saying no responsible government will deliberately exploit citizens, especially in the provision of social amenities like electrification and other relevant infrastructure. President Muhammadu Buhari had in September 2020 approved a minor review of the price of electricity, while the National Assembly in its resolution deferred the price review to the first quarter of 2021.
By Onyebuchi Ezigbo
Nzuko Umuna, an Igbo think tank, has said that the country is witnessing worsening insecurity due to injustice, inequalities and lack of good governance.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja,, chairman of the legal committee of the Think- tank, Mr. Sam Amadi, said that unfair and unequal treatment of citizens had helped to compound the insecurity crisis.
Amadi lamented that the South-East that used to be the “safest region in Nigeria” had now become “a theatre of organised criminality.”
“Nzuko Umuna recognizes that Nigeria has descended into a depth of insecurity partly because of the failure of governance across the country and particularly because of inequities and injustices of political leadership in Nigeria,” the former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said.