Attention, Fashola …Petition against KEDCO

 Mr Babatunde Fashola, please accept my belated congrats on your appointment as power minister, and the other ministries under your command. May Allah give you the skill, vision, wisdom and courage for fairness and justice in your service to the people. On behalf of the electricity consumers in Malali area of Kaduna, I wish to […]

 Mr Babatunde Fashola, please accept my belated congrats on your appointment as power minister, and the other ministries under your command. May Allah give you the skill, vision, wisdom and courage for fairness and justice in your service to the people.

On behalf of the electricity consumers in Malali area of Kaduna, I wish to bring this problem/complaint to your attention, with the hope that you will sanction the Kaduna Disco. 

Lately the Kaduna Disco went about changing our meters in our respective homes and replacing them with purported new ones, which they now place high up on the street electric poles. These meters are exposed to high temperatures, severe weather and rains, etc. They cannot withstand the effects of these elements for long. The reasons for placing them on public streets are of questionable wisdom. Inside the respective houses, the equipment are owned and protected by the owner, but how can that be true with their current public display and apparent public ownership? How can they be more protected from public vandals that freely roaming the streets, nor from the effects of weather? Whenever these negative tendencies happen, we the consumers will be short-changed and treated with neglect and the customary corrupt and unaccountable arrogance of the Disco, because we the consumers are always helpless to such exploitation.

For three days now, since the installation of the new meters with only 10 units of power in them, residents/consumers in Malali area have helplessly been left without power after easily exhausting the token 10 units. The promise to transfer our respective units into the new system has so far proved the typical fake and fraudulent Nigeria official promises that prosper because of the absence of effective and swift retribution and severe sanction. The logical option left, and as suggested by the culprit, is to purchase and load new credits until they sort out their seeming fraud, if they are ever compelled to do so.   

Even when we purchased new credit units, we are left with them unloaded because the data required to effect the load is said to be non-functional yet, and thus we must continue to remain in darkness, and paying heavily on fuel to power our respective generators, while the Disco guys are arrogantly unresponsive to our plight and irresponsible to their responsibility, ostensibly because we the people do not really matter, and they will go scot free at no cost for this corporate irresponsibility and doubtful competence. 

 Mr Minister, this is happening under your watch and public trust. We urge you not only to force the Kaduna Disco into a responsible corporate behavior, but to also make them pay restitution for the quantifiable lost hours in credit refunds to the consumers of Malali area affected, and all others so affected elsewhere. May God help you in this regard.

Das Abdullahi, Malali GRA, Kaduna