Senatorial candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) for Kogi West in the last general elections, Omoluabi Bode Adeyemi has called electricity consumer in the zone to ignore the recently announced sales of prepaid meters by Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).
In a press statement released on Saturday, Omoluabi described the newly introduced fee for by AEDC as corporate robbery.
He stated that he has filed a suit against AEDC at Federal High Court, Lokoja seeking injunction restraining the company from selling prepaid meters to consumers in Kogi West. He insisted that the meters must be distributed free of charge.
“I am pleased to inform the general public that after due consultations and receipt of complaints against the misdemeanor of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company against our people. I was at the Federal High Court, Lokoja yesterday to sue AEDC after substantially establishing that huge infractions have been committed against our people in the supply, rates and distribution of electricity to our people.
“It is important to state that the abominable acts of the company against the people are grievous, frustrating and and debilitating so much that it requires immediate legal action, most especially after it has been established that they have been sufficiently and painstakingly engaged by traditional, community and religious leaders severally without any iota of change.
“It became most needful after the company introduced cost to prepaid meters, this to me and my team is the height of extortion, corporate robbery and deliberate wickedness against our people who are customers, as conscious law abiding citizens, we have sufficiently established that the sale is against the extant laws guiding the operation of Discos and electricity distribution in Nigeria.
“I therefore wish advise our people not to pay a dime for the illegal sales as the court in the coming week will grant our injunction restraining the company from such sales but distribute free of charge,” he said.
Omoluabi assured all electricity consumers in Kogi West that he will do all he can to ensure justice is done and served timely.
