Ebonyi State House of Assembly has summoned the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) over high tariff and epileptic power supply in the state.
The matter came up during the Assembly plenary under a matter of urgent public importance.
Moving a motion on the matter, the Deputy Speaker of the House and member representing Afikpo North West constituency, Kingsley Ikoro, said the company has been charging the masses very high tariff without electricity supply, describing it as unacceptable.
“For instance, I left my house for a month and at the end of the day due to their general billing, they brought a bill of N54,000 in a house where no one stayed for a month
“If you go to our villages, our people are really suffering. I think it’s high time we invited the owners of EEDC to come and explain to us.”
The Leader of the House and member representing Ezza North West constituency, Victor Chukwu, alleged that the company has been extorting the people.
He lamented that in many places in the state, there has not been electricity for long while EEDC has been bringing bills to pay for light they have refused to supply..
Speaker of the House, Francis Nwifuru, directed the House Committee on Power to summon the company to explain why there are arbitrary charges and epileptic power supply in the state.
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