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EEDC Launches Electricity Bill Initiative In S’East

Embattled Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has launched a community empowerment programme meant to ensure 100 per cent monthly collection of electric bills in communities within the South-East.
The Head, EEDC Communication, Mr Emeka Ezeh, who made this known in a statement in Enugu, stated that the launch of the initiative took place in five states under EEDC jurisdiction, which included Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.
Ezeh explained that in the initiative, the communities are expected to ensure that bills for energy consumed are paid for in full, while as incentive, commission on the collection would be paid to the group appointed by the community to oversee the responsibility.
His words: “EEDC launched its Community Empowerment Programme, an initiative targeted at communities, designed to provide reliable, guaranteed and quality service to them.
“The programme also provides job opportunity for members of the communities through partnership.
“Present at the events were representatives of the respective state governments, traditional rulers, president-Generals of communities, management staff of EEDC as well as other stakeholders.”
In his remarks the Managing Director of EEDC, Mr Okey Nwosu, said that the initiative was introduced as part of conscious plan to reduce Aggregate Technical and Commercial (ATC) losses experienced by the company, and “at the same time create profitable business opportunity for the community as well as job opportunities for its members.
“The communities are expected to ensure that bills for energy consumed are paid for in full, while as incentive, commission on the collection will be paid to the group appointed by the community to oversee this responsibility, thereby creating a source of income for them.”
“To ensure the initiative is sustained, Nwosu said: “the participating communities will enjoy better power supply with regular maintenance of the electricity infrastructure serving them, and that meters will be installed at the transformers for efficient energy audit and measurement.”
During the launch in Awka, Anambra State, Gov. Willie Obiano, lauded EEDC for the initiative and expressed the state government’s readiness to support it.
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