IKEDC, community agree to resolve December electricity bill

By Edith Igbokwe

Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) and the Araromi Community Development Association (CDA) have agreed to  a round table meeting Thursday next week to resolve the outrageous December bills  causing faceoff between both parties.

The residents are rejecting the December electricity bills issued to the power consumers in the community, claiming that the bills are out of sync with the units of power supplied and consumed in the community in the month.

The Association explained that the residents did not consume electricity between December 3 and 31, 2020 as the transformer was faulty during the period.

It was gathered that the transformer broke down as a result of fire outbreak from the transformer which burnt one side of the cables and rendered it nonfunctional for some weeks while the incident was immediately reported at Ikeja electric Oshodi undertaking office.

When December bill was issued to each affected house, it was N31,000 plus which the community rejected, claiming that the transformer was restored on December 31.

Having refused to pay the December bill, the officials of Ikeja Electric started disconnecting people’s wore which was rebuffed by the residents which led to faceoff between the residents and the Ikeja Electric workers.

Meanwhile, the management of Ikeja Electric claimed that the transformer got spoilt on December 10 but not December 3 as claimed by the community.

The community, on the other hand, said even with the December 10 claimed by the company, their bills were still too high.

However, to resolve the issue, the CDA Chairman, Alhaji Olasunkanmi Ogunbakinde and his executive members wrote a letter to the Ikeja electric CEO, the Branch Manager at Alausa and to Oshodi undertaking Manager to notify them with the issue on ground and how resolution can be achieved.

The management of the company has therefore agreed to meet with the community to address the issue.