Electricity: Niger, private consumers owe N770m
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has cried out that the huge debt of over N770 million owed by the Niger State government and other private consumers in the state is capable of crippling the activities of the company.
This is as the Emir of Minna, Dr Umar Farouq Bahago, asked the firm to give 24-hour electricity supply to its customers in his emirate in order to boost their businesses and generate employment.
The AEDC Director, Risk and Compliance, Mr Collins Chabuka, said the organisation was already feeling the negative effect of the debt and therefore solicited the support of traditional rulers in the state for the recovery of the debt.
Chabuka, who was addressing a sensitisation programme in Minna on Thursday, said: “Niger State consumers are our highest debtors, they have to do something to reduce it for us to serve the state better. The electricity we supply we have to buy it, without money we cannot do so.”
He warned consumers against patronising those he described as “quacks”, saying these category of people were responsible for the series of disaster that had taken place in the state in recent times.
L-R: Group Executive Director, Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Dangote Industries Limited, Mr. Devakumar Edwin, Group Chief Communication Officer, Dangote Group, Anthony Chiejina and the General Manager, Corporate Communications, Sunday Esan at a press conference on Monday in Lagos on the alleged 10 year tax holiday to Dangote Group.
L-R: Executive Director, Jude Monye, representing the MD/CEO of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifie Sekibo; US Ambassador to Nigeria Mr. Stuart Symington, Gov. of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki and his wife, Betsy, during the opening of Exhibition Gallery at National Museum Benin by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) in collaboration with the Edo State Government, and the Smithsonian Institute, United States of America, which Heritage Bank was one of the lead sponsors, yesterday.
Simon Ugwu
