Ex-LP guber candidate, Oko Eze urges Nwifuru to encourage distribution of prepaid metres in Ebonyi

The former gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the last 2023 general election in Ebonyi state, Mr. Splendour Ok Eze has urged governor Francis Nwifuru to encourage the distribution of prepaid meters as against postpaid metres to each household in the State.

Oko Eze said that the distribution of prepaid metres as against postpaid metres by EEDC will help to avert extortion and deepening the hardships and sufferings of Ebonyians.

The Guber candidate, Oko Eze made this known through in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi State at the weekend.

The statement reads in part: “The rate of EEDC high/estimated billings in Ebonyi State is not acceptable. The bill EEDC gives to the people living in Ebonyi State is very alarming. How can someone who lives in a 3 bedroom apartment pay an estimated bill of almost #40k in a month?

“People who live in bungalow pay #70k to #80k every month while those that live in Duplex pay #150 to #170 every month. This is exploitation at the highest level. It has to stop. The government should please intervene so as to reduce the sufferings of our people.

“EEDC has deliberately refused to distribute prepaid metres in Ebonyi State because it doesn’t allow them to exploit the people that much. Their excuse is always ” metres are not available now” to enable them continue with estimated billing.

“Secondly, they deliberately hiked the price of prepaid metres to #65k for single face and #80k and above for double face. This is highly exploitative and it’s not acceptable.

“The most annoying aspect of it is that light is not always steady as to justify this exploitative and unacceptable billings.

“The reason for the privatization of NEPA by the Federal Government was to make sure that service is improved and bills reduced but it seems the aim is long ago defeated because instead of EEDC reducing the bill, it’s now higher than when NEPA was in charge. This is very bad.

“In this hatch economy, government must continue to do those things that will reduce the plights of our people!!! The reason we have government is for the interest of the people to be protected at all times. Government must make lives easier for our people” he stressed.