Angry residents of Edo state have voiced out their disapproval over recent happenings by Benin Electricity Distribution Company -whom they say is using security operatives to coerce them to pay the new electricity tariff against the court order..

Below is an allegation labelled against the company by Edo Civil Society Organisations PRO, Comrade Osazee Edigin

I write this post today to bring to the notice of the general public the open war declared by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company on the good people of Edo state.

You would recall in 2014 when members of Edo Civil Society Organisations raised issues that bother on electricity exploitation, extortion, non provision of metres, compulsory payment for darkness by the people and other ancillary issues which the governor lent his voice and condemned same.

We took same matter to the Edo State House of Assembly, the Oba Palace, and the National Assembly which all these institutions spoke in the same vein with you. For purpose of legal clarity, we took the matter to the Federal High Court in Lagos through our counsel, Barrister Toluwani Adebiyi to seek for an injunction to stop further increment on tariff, mandatory supply of metres among other things. The injunction was granted by the court on the 28th day of May, 2015, which states that there shall be no increment in tariff till the determination of the substantive suit.

To our greatest surprise, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the eleven Distribution Companies across the country, on 1st February, 2016 went ahead to increase tariff against the court order. It is also of note that, the legal process of tariff fixing in accordance with the Electric Power Reform Act, 2005, particularly section 76 was not adhered to...

In recent development, the management of BEDC have engaged the services of military and police personnel who go about oppressing, intimidating Edo people, coercing them to pay the new tariff against the court order, more worrisome is the use of the police in arresting persons who have rejected the new tariff and charging them to court for prosecution through the Command Monitoring Unit which is directly supervised by the Commissioner of Police. It is on good record that, for this purpose, 15 new Hilux vans were procured to convey military and police officers to different locations across the state to forcefully disconnect and arrest citizens that have refused to pay the illegal tariff imposed on them by BEDC.

The thrust of this post is to urgently draw everybody’s attention to an impending anarchy in the state which will be as a result of Edo Civil Society Organisations’ resistance/confrontation with the military and police personnel used by BEDC in oppressing, intimidating, harassing, coercing Edo people despite a subsisting court order. We will do anything within our powers in protecting our cherished democracy and Edo people even if it means sacrificing our lives. It will be a moral sin for us to fold our arms and watch the judiciary ridiculed by few capitalists in a democratic dispensation where the court is expected to be the last bus stop to every dispute and contention.'

It should also be noted that, the Managing Director of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, Mrs. Funke Osibudu is very wealthy hence she has a lot of money to mobilize the police and military against Edo people in a democratic era, Edo people now live in absolute fear daily due to the oppressive, intimidating, oppressive actions by BEDC using the military and police.

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.com/2016/04/edo-electricity-distribution-company.html

Nigeria -an entertainment country

seems we have gone back to military regime

Nigeria look ugly and dirty.Look at those ugly surroundings at the background.

What a funny country. Even animals are more organized and respectful to each other than what is obtainable in Naija. It has now gone on record that the change government took power generation to zero MW yet increased tariffs.

Why are we wicked towards our fellow citizens?

see as u dey form as if u dey UK.... abi na April fool u wan do

Love Machine:
Nigeria look ugly and dirty.Look at that ugly surroundings at the background.

CastedDude:
see as u dey form as if u dey UK.... abi na April fool u wan do

Bro,you sef check am.I dey lie?

Buharist...
Oshiomhole...

Who is the Chief Security Officer of the State?

Who is the Chief Security Officer of the country?

Them deh town?

A government with no freedom for its citizens

I have never been as irked, irritated and frustrated as I was yesterday when I got an astronomical Electricity Bill for non existent power supply...
One begins to wonder why any sensible Government will first of all increase Electricity Tariffs before ensuring constant supply....

The conflicting promises and actions of the government concerning this fuel scarcity debacle is a clear indication of unprecedented cluelesness, insensitivity, barefaced lies, double standards and sheer wickedness

Life in Nigeria has suddenly become 'Brutish and short'... The gruesome conditions in which Nigerians now grapple with is better left for savages...

The Government of the day has no clue how to rescue us from this conundrum. The earlier we come to terms with this the better for us all...

APC and their Minions have scammed us

NEVER AGAIN

Them no get one single joy

What else do you expect when we are living in the era of the tyrant?


Soon, anyone who cannot pay his bills will be thrown in jail.

That's the change. Edo people should not complain yet. Una never see anything.


Proudly 5 %

kk

They're following Babu order

What reason did they give for the increase in tariff when they don't even supply enough power. Are the masses going to paying for the government's mismanagement and corruption?

I think Nigerians should start arming themselves. The government do whatever they like because they know the masses can't do anything other than bark.

APC why?

Fellow Nigerians, I think is is high time we all match to Aso Rock and chase the dullard out. For how long shall we continue to watch our country go into extinction in the hand of this tyrant called President?

kk

We expected increased power supply with whose money?

Once privatization happened....the money was going to come from our pockets.

Buhari is dead

dorofresh:

I have never been as irked, irritated and frustrated as I was yesterday when I got an astronomical Electricity Bill for non existent power supply...
One begins to wonder why any sensible Government will first of all increase Electricity Tariffs before ensuring constant supply....

The conflicting promises and actions of the government concerning this fuel scarcity debacle is a clear indication of unprecedented cluelesness, insensitivity, barefaced lies, double standards and sheer wickedness

Life in Nigeria has suddenly become 'Brutish and short'... The gruesome conditions in which Nigerians now grapple with is better left for savages...

The Government of the day has no clue how to rescue us from this conundrum. The earlier we come to terms with this the better for us all...

APC and their Minions have scammed us

NEVER AGAIN

In response

1.In 2014....GEJ privatised power supply in Nigeria, with a planned increase in the power bill to come later on.

Once power was privatised in Nigeria....price increases were just a matter of time.

Or where do you think that DISCOS and GENCOS are going to get money to improve power supply.? From the banks or from the sky?

And why are you blaming APC for something PDP put in place one year before APC took over? Do you expect APC to terminate the agreement...with the govt having to pay heavy sums in compensation to aggrieved DISCOS and GENCOS? Some of you guys need to think!.

2.Even if all our refineries were working at full capacity....we still need to import 23million liters of refined fuel daily.

We also need new refineries.....which all take time to build.

When GEJ was in power for five years....the same refineries were still messed up.And he did nothing. He had high oil prices....and he did not even start building one new refinery. And looting of our crude was still going on.

Why did you not complain then?

Does it take ten months to repair refineries that have been messed up for decades? Does it take ten months to build three to four new refineries? Answer?

And now thanks to the fall in oil price.....and thanks to the past government failing to save when oil prcies were sky high.....we do not have enough cash to import fuel. Why do you think NNPC took over fuel imports in this country? Because marketers cannot source for scarce forex without massively raising prices.

Some of you opponents are so bitter you refuse to think And you call us thoughtless non existent creatures!

Abeg.....park well.

When a dictator governs (rules) in a democracy...that's what I term "DICTAMOCRACY"

Why are you complaining?
You are APC State.
Your supreme ex Soldier is in charge...

We will find a new name for you since you don't fall under Wailer or Zombie.

Jamexjulius:
kk

denkyw:
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olujuwonj:
kk

omusiliyu:

i sight una

Too bad this is happening in this time and age

Hahahaha.. Make u na continue to dey enjoy the change. Shey no be u na want change? The change has come. Make u na dey enjoy am berekete.

I wonder the kind slap or heavy beating anybody wey mistakenly say ''sai buhari'' go recieve.

We are our own Problem.