The Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA) has raised the alarm over an alleged fraud going on at the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company ( EEDC) accusing it of shortchanging the Chamber with it’s newly released band categorization and billings.
President of ECCIMA, Odeiga Jideonwo lamented that the distribution company categorized their feeder covering Golf estate, G. R. A. Enugu, location of the Trade Fair permanent site as Band A, increased their tariff, when they don’t supply power to the area for up to 20 hours in a day, describing it as fraudulent.
He said what the EEDC did was to move feeders that do not have up to 20 hours supply to the band A and they now pay about three times more than what they used to pay, which is wrong.
He explained that trade fair ground is now under Band A, which should not be and that the cham were paying 60± per kilowatt hour before; now we are paying 200+ per kilowatt hour . As we speak, there is no power supply. We have all been out of power supply for today for more than 10 hours but yet, this is categorised as Band A, he said.
The President called on NERC to call EEDC’ to order as what EEDC doing is tantamount the defrauding the South Easterners.