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THE SACK OF FUNKE OSIBUDU AND BEDC MANAGEMENT SHOULD BE TOP PRIORITY:
___angered Funke throws more than half of Benin City into darkness for over 5 days and still counting.
___boasts of buying PHCN for eternity and that nothing anybody can do about it.
Not many of us understands the core of our agitations against the sack of Funke Osibudu led management team for over five years now. The incessant protests by members of Edo Civil Society Organisations at any given given opportunity goes beyond the non provision of meters, lack of transformers, intimidation of customers using the military and police, estimated and crazy billing among other issues that have been raised overtime.
Funke and her team have subjected the people of Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti states to untold hardship and suffering due to her own preferred style of business model. It should be recalled, she was the managing director of Union Bank Plc as at the time it encountered serious setback which the bank is yet to recover from till date.
Recently, the Performance Agreement of ten out of the eleven DISCOs was to come to an end on the 31st of October, 2018 after a five year operation. The Bureau of Public Procurement and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission surreptitiously planned an extension with one year which the civil society resisted with a five day well mobilised protests at the Benin NERC Forum Office.
The reaction from the managment of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company to the protests by the civil society was that, there is no renewal of any licence whatsoever, they went further in their statement to affirm that the defunct PHCN had been sold to them for eternity. In other words, they have bought and paid and that we have no choice than to accept whatever they decide to do with it.
Now, what Funke does is to take little power from the Transmission Company of Nigeria while rejecting the allocated power that will improve supply. She ensures that the entities and individuals on her SPECIAL LINES gets up to 20 hours daily while people in communities and made to share 2-3 hours daily. What matters to her is huge profit and not service delivery. Access to electricity is everybody's right and must not be done by discretion by anybody offering such an important public service.
Here comes the time not to leave this battle for the civil society alone because, from the foregoing, it is a battle she has put up with the people. This is a strong call to the governors of her franchise states, unions, associatons, traditional rulers, communities and all well meaning citizens must rise up to this challenge in ensuring that whatever their plans are to further plunge us into pains and sufferings is defeated by our collective will.
Funke and her management team must be sent parking in order for us enjoy any form of improvement in electricity supply. BEDC is the worse of all DISCOs and must not continue under Funke and her team.
THIS IS A BATTLE TO FINISH. NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER.
FUNKE MUST GO!
Leftist Osazee Edigin
Public Relations Officer
Edo Civil Society Organisations
28A, Erie Street,
Off Sokponba Road,
Benin City,
Edo State,
Nigeria.
www.edocso.org
with what is going on in Edo state, I am not seeing any possible victory for the APC lead Government.... Personally I like Buhari oh.... but,how can we say Nigeria is growing when not one basic amenity this govt can brag about it. I thought power outage by now would be a thing of the past