Ondo residents protest BEDC’s outrageous billing without electricity

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Peter Dada, Akure Hundreds of residents of Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Monday, stormed the office of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, protesting the alleged extortion of the electric

ity company.

They were armed with placards with inscriptions such as, ‘FGN, this is wickedness’. ‘We deserve a better life,’ ‘BEDC is evil,’ ‘BEDC enough of this cheating,’ ‘BEDC don’t force us to buy cables,’ among others. One of the protesters, Mr. Fredrick Ojo emphasized that they will no longer condone billing of their residences when the estate had not had light in the last eight months.

“Everybody should be metered and no impediment should be placed in the way of acquisition of the meters.”

 

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If una transformer have issue, na dey community na una go gather money, give the useless NEPA to come fix the transformer, later they will come theaf am again

Whether you see light or Not....you must pay!! Our transformer was spoiled for almost three month, but our current dey follows, bills the come! And No light. Useless Power Holding Company.

Oshiomole has plentiful stakes in BEDCpower, they have govt protection. Nothing will happen. vanguardngrnews daily_trust ShehuSani

Those guys are thieves. That's why I stopped paying bile since February and my light was disconnected in March last year till now and I promised I will never go back them to reconnect me cos of their outrageous billing. 1/2

This Niger is all about corruption🤔

Wen dey camping dey say power to d people and wen d win dey will take d power from dey people......

That's if the FG will give a f**k.

The billing is too much

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