Electricity Consumers in Bayelsa state in Nigeria has called
for a review of Power Distribution Company to achieve its efficient supply in
the country. At the consumers’ forum in Yenegoa, Bayelsa state, resident
expressed frustration over the poor electricity supply in the area. The news
correspondent reports that the consumers urged the federal government to take a
critical look at the privatization of the power sector with the view to
repositioning it for optimum performance:
According to the correspondent who reports that at the forum
which brought together top officials in PORT
HARCOURT ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY and some consumers in the state;
residence wasted no time in voicing their dissatisfaction over ineffective
supply of power supply in the area and other part of the Bayelsa state. One of the complainant who reside at the AGUDAMA
AXIS of the state capital was categorically that Power Distribution
Company was not meeting up to their responsibilities. According to the
complainant what said that last month they ran short of Power supply and as a
result the PHCD does not consider the shortage of electricity compare to the
high bill that they will come up as demand at the end of the month which is
alarming. And he expressed his annoyance over the issue of PHCD electricity
monthly bill which he said that they are paying for darkness that they enjoy
and not light from PHCD.
Another consumer who works in FAMILORA and reside in the KPASHA
area of the state stressed that the fault that was reported in the transmitting
line took many months to get it fixed; according to the consumer who said that
those of them who live between INEC road and Otaka that it had taken almost
four months that they have not experienced light,; and they usually experience
light two weeks towards the time for PHCD to collect their monthly bills.
The top management of the PHCD PROFESSOR GODWIN OWOLOWO who represented the chief executive
officer said the company was doing its best to ensure adequate power supply but
was being hampered by poor payment of bills, according to PROFESSOR GODWIN OWOLOWO who said that they bring in about an
average of 15 million units of energy
every month which worth about Four
Hundred and Fifty million Naira (N450,000.00),and what they get from this
amount is about Eighty six million Naira
(N86,000.00)in the last three months which is about 17% (percent); he addes that there are people who produces
electricity, the gas is not free, the generation company invested heavily in the
acquiring and maintaining the machine, and the transmission company invested
heavily in their transmission line. The more the money comes, the more the cost
of production of the electricity. And he said finally that if everybody should
pay their bills; everybody in the valley chain will go unharmed.
He Understate that with the install capacity of seven hundred and eighty Mega watts (784 mgw),
systematically schedule were only realistic option. Stressing that PHCD will
hold about ninety nine billion naira
(N99, 000,000,000.00) by customers in the fore South –South state, thus, boosting
ability to effectively distribute power in its area of operation.
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