From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
The Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kogi State Council, at it’s maiden congress of 7th January, 2025, expressed concern over poor activities of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) in the state.
The Congress during the meeting made the following observations with a plea for quick response by AEDC to remedy the ugly development.
“That the distribution company has continued to fatally degenerate in it’s services to it’s customers in the state with reckless sense of irresponsibility.
“That the Christmas and new year celebrations in the state was drastically void of it’s usual funfares and thrills owing to low supply of light and total electricity outage in some parts of the state.
” That AEDC repugnant disposition has invariably closed many small businesses in the state who rely heavily on constant electricity supply to make ends meet.
“That AEDC has flagrantly refused to provide the Pre- paid Metres (as directed by the federal government ) to it’s customers with only a pantry of about 20% of the over 1.8 million customers who applied for the pre paid Metres.
“That the staff of AEDC has continued to exhibit profound moral gap in their underhand dealings through extortions of customers and disconnections of light in the slightest provocation.
“That significant communities in the state like Aiyegunle gbedde, Ayere, Aiyetoro gbedde, Abocho , Sheria among others have continued to stay without electricity supply for upward of three years or more with no response from the distribution company yet the monthly bills continue to pile”.
The Correspondents’ Chapel, however, resolved, “That the state government should have an interface with the management of AEDC with a view to increasing power supply in the state.
“That the state government should enact enabling laws through the House of Assembly to fight for it’s citizens who are daily subjected to untold harassments and extortions from the staff of the distribution company.
“That the federal government should do a thorough scrutiny of AEDC and other distribution companies in the country, and if found wanting should not hesitate to disband them”.
