By Adaobi Rhema Oguejiofor
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), Kingsley Achife, has said that the residential consumers in Ogun State owe the company over N67 billion.
Achife disclosed this at a community engagement held at the IBEDC Head Office in Leme, Abeokuta, for its customers within the Abeokuta metropolis and Sagamu.
He urged the members of the public to never cover staff of the company, who indulge in unwholesome practices as about 10 of such erring staff had been sacked in the last five months.
Achife, who was represented by the Lead Media Relations Officer of IBEDC in Ibadan, Mrs. Busolami Tunwase, said that consumers should pay their debts in order to avoid disconnection, adding that the company called for the engagement with the customers to seek better working relationships and to particularly appeal to them to help by paying their debts, which was now becoming a source of concern to the company.
In his own words, “we have called this meeting to seek better working relationships with our customers but we cannot do this if they are not paying for the services being rendered. As we speak, customers in Ogun State owe us over N67 billion and this is very huge. We all know that no business can survive with suffocating debt like this so, we are appealing to them to pay up before we begin to disconnect them.
“Another issue is that of theft of the energy whereby the customers are short-changing the company. They are either not paying for what they use or not paying completely for the energy consumed.”
