Leave Enugu State, Assembly Orders EEDC

In a response to incessant protests in Enugu following alleged exploitations on residents of the state by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, the state House of Assembly had resolved to send the electricity distribution company out of the state.

Hon Chinedu Nwamba, representing Nsukka East state constituency, on behalf of 22 others, in a motion, claimed that the EEDC had adopted nefarious activities to exploit power consumers in the state, thus the need to sanction it.

Until the resolution, many electricity consumers in the state had staged protests to the state House of Assembly over incessant power outages and outrageous billings by the EEDC.

The House amended Nwamba’s three prayers to six interlia declaration of a state of emergency on EEDC with an order for the company to leave the state; directive on the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission to order the EEDC to stop billing customers in the state pending the resolution of the issues; the state should set up a technical committee to liaise with EEDC to validate the quality of new metres being supplied to consumers, and an order on the EEDC to operate in line with the international standards, as well as charging the people of Enugu state and its environs the same way other parts of the country are charged.

The House directed electricity consumers in the state to stop paying for electricity bills they did not consume, and called other south-east states to replicate same.

The House henceforth constituted an ad-hoc committee to hold public hearings in the three senatorial zones of the state where EEDC and NERC officials would be in attendance.