The youth wing and elders of Irawo-Owuro CDA in Ahmadiya area of Lagos State have cried out over outrageous estimated billings and poor power supply by the Ikeja Distribution Company (IKEDC).
In a letter sent to the Business Manager of IKEDC, said that non-metered residents would not accept illegal estimated billing henceforth.
The irawo-Owuro Community Development Association comprises Aina Street, Banjo Owoyele Street, Aduke Street, Aina Street, Ambali and Morenike Streets and among others.
According to the letter as quoted "We understand that the IE has decided to provide the community with a 500kVA relief transformer by the first week of March 2021. We also understand that the non-metered customers who are currently, ridiculously and strangely billed would be provided with pre-paid meters, from the beginning of January, 2021," it added.
The letter added, "following this and other reasons, residents in our community are feeling being short-changed. One of the disturbing factors is the irregular and poor power supply to our community, hence, the need for this reminder; once again:
"That IE should provide us with the 500kVA relief transformer by March 2021 as promised. Hopefully, this, we believe, will address the current unwarranted/unacceptable load-shedding arrangement the entire community has since been subjected to. You will recall that we mentioned this issue in our previous letter - that the load-shedding affects the social and economic activities, as well as security needs of the entire community.
"That IE should make sure that all non-metered customers in the community are henceforth metered, so as to avoid being illegally estimated and billed after all!!!
"That the IE should properly bill prepaid meter users according to the FGN-NBET-NERC tariff plan - the tariff service Band B @ 49.76kWH (minimum of 16 hours/day). In other words, the present manner of billing, both on the pre-paid and estimated platforms is no more acceptable by the entire community. To say the obvious, we feel being exploited, because we do not enjoy electricity supply more than eight (8) hours/day in our community. Note, this is apart from the load-shedding program which has since technically reduced our days of power supply to an average of 10 days in a month!!!
"Therefore, we are giving you two weeks to diligently attend to our demands, so as to ensure the cordial relationship between your organization and us", the CDA said.
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