Some Aggrieved residents of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) Housing
Estate in Abuja, yesterday, stormed the premises of the Abuja
Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to protest poor power supply to
them.
The angry residents, who thronged the Abuja Electricity Distribution
Company (AEDC) office, located in Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, accused the
company officials of arrogance and lackadaisical attitude, which they
claimed threw the entire estate into darkness for weeks
Operating under the aegis of Landlords-Tenants Resident Association
(LATRA) the protesters displayed placards with various inscriptions such
as: “AEDC, we the residents of AMAC/ACO Housing Estate are passing
through hell. Give us meter and light.”
Others read: “AEDC! There has been no light in AMAC/ACO Estate in the
last one month yet you still bill us on estimated platform.”
Meanwhile, the aggrieved residents have conveyed their resolution of
no metering, no payment of electricity bills to the management of the
AEDC during a meeting held between the both parties at the distribution
company’s office.
Addressing journalists after the meeting that lasted over one and
half hours, Chairman of the Landlords-Tenants Resident Association,
Mukolu Samson, said, “We have resolved there that no metering, no
payment of electricity bills. If we are not metered, we should not pay.
“And we have also resolved that on no account should AEDC officials
come to our estate to demand for payment of any sort, even when the
electricity is restored, they should wait until they metered us. And
they must compensate us for all the months that we have been in
darkness.
“The AEDC representatives have also resolved that tentatively, we
will be provided with new transformers, because most of our electronic
gadgets have all been damaged as result of power fluctuation. This is
part of our resolution.
“As we go home now, we tell our people we must not see AEDC officials
in AMAC/ACO Estate unless they are coming to restore the power or
install meters in various flats. That is our resolution.”
In his earlier address during the protest, Samson maintained that,
“As far as we are concerned in the estate, they have done nothing to
ameliorate our sufferings as regards electricity supply in AMAC/ACO
Estate, Airport road Abuja.”