Thirteen right groups in the South-East under the aegis of South-East based Coalition of Human Rights and Good Governance Organisations on Saturday protested against the activities of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company.
The groups, in a petition to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), accused the EEDC of illegal deals and sharp practices which had kept the people of the area in perpetual darkness.
The groups asked the minister to disband the Disco to save the people of the area from hardship.
The petition was sent to the Acting Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr. Anthony Akah; the Chairman Senate Committee on Power, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe; and the Chairman, House Committee, Effiong Daniel.
The petition partly read, “This letter contains EEDC’s untamed and unbearable criminality, recklessness and lawlessness in the entire 18 business districts of the company in South-East.
“These findings arise from our in-depth investigation. The joint letter seeks an expeditious and competent intervention of its recipients to rescue the people of the South-East from the shackles and manacles of EEDC in the Zone.”
“We are deeply concerned about sundry criminal activities and other forms of lawlessness going on in the EEDC. Electricity, the lifewire of the people of South-East zone and driving force of the economy of the zone, has been brutally denied the people of the South-East.
“The most disastrous of it all is the reckless abandon and impunity with which the EEDC breaches the clear provisions of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission Act (Electric Power Sector Reform (EPSR) Act No 6 of 2005) and the fundamental human rights and other relevant provisions of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution ( As amended).”
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