The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company has allegedly been invaded by corrupt and bribe-taking workers that are making fast money in Kuje, one of the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory.
Investigations revealed that the field workers, most of who are half-literates, have embarked on disconnecting supplies to the houses whose occupants would not bribe them even if such consumers have been paying their electricity bills.
Some residents of Chibiri, the Kuje suburb, complained loudly that the workers invaded the village between Thursday and Friday last week, openly demanding between N2,000 and N5,000 from each of the houses to spare them the embarrassment of disconnecting their electricity.
It was gathered that those who might have gone to their offices in Garki and were therefore not around to pay the bribe money had their electricity disconnected even when the workers were shown the bills they had officially paid to their office.
One of the affected consumers, Mallam Salihu Mohammed, said when his grown up son showed the electricity workers copies of the bills, which he had been paying at their office, they complained that the money was too small and went ahead to disconnect the supply when the son could not give them N4,000, which they openly demanded.
SOURCE: The Eagle Online
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