The crisis between Energy Consumers using Ikwerre road feeder, Diobu, Port Harcourt and Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) may have taken another dimension following the reported disconnection of power supply to the customers by the distribution company, National Network learned.
An Energy customer, Amos Ordu told our reporter that PHED rather than attending to complaints the residents raised in their letter to the Managing Director of the Company, the organisation unhooked the power supply to the area.
Information at our disposal suggests that the residents as a way of expressing their displeasure over seeming highhandedness by PHED may shut down the distribution company substation located inside Rivers State University, RSU at Nkpolu.
National Network had reported that the residents of Mile 2 and Mile 3 Diobu, in a letter dated 18th March,2020 addressed to the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED), which was signed by representative of over 25 streets indicated interest to sever their corporate relationship with the company.
The residents in the letter cited by our reporter had accused PHED of various unpleasant treatments ranging from payment for darkness, non-availability of power supply, diversion of power supply to customers in their choice area, estimated and over billing system, among others.
The residents recalled that in a meeting before the office of the CEO on 18th March 2018, the company reportedly promised to suspended their officers who collected three Million naira from the energy customers and refund the said amount.
The energy consumers decried a situation where the residents are made to buy electric cables and poles whenever there is fault despite the fact that it is not their responsibility.
Checks by our reporter show that the residents had before now petitioned Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, CP Dandaura Mustapha on the alleged use of Policemen by the company to intimidate residents of the area.
The Manager Corporate Communication of PHED, South South, John Onyi, was yet to respond to several text messages sent to his mobile line by our reporter which from National Network response was delivered to his mobile line.
