Kogi welders task Buhari, Bello on epileptic power supply

Black-Smith Welders and Iron Benders Association of Nigeria (BWIAN) Kogi state chapter, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi to rescue the association from total collapse following epileptic power supply.
The members, who also berated the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) for not keeping to their promises of distributing prepaid metres to customers after years of promises, cried out that over 2000 of its members in Central senatorial district would soon be pushed out of the trade “if urgent actions are not taken by the government.”
In a statement jointly signed by the president of the association Kogi Central, Mr Musa Sa’eed and the branch chairmen of Adavi , Ajaokuta, Okene and Okehi local government areas, the members lamented that the distribution company is already at the point of throwing their members out of business.
“The AEDC in the last three years has been giving our members crazy bills for the power they have not used. More worrisome is the six-hour supply the distribution company releases in a day which if evaluated, the number of days we have light in a month is only seven days while the company bills us for 30 days.
“We are tired of paying for electricity we do not use. Also, the staff of AEDC will disconnect our light but the bills keep coming to us on monthly basis and the company is planning to deduct such bill from our prepaid metres if they eventually consider us. Many of us can no longer feed our families,” they lamented.
While appealing to President Buhari and Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to come to their aid, the artisans said the over 2000 members of the association would soon be pushed into the already saturated labour market “if government does not come out to assist us.”
The group however commended the effort of Governor Bello in the area of provision of security of lives and property to the people of the state, assuring him of their unalloyed support to move the state forward. The Liaison Officer of Licence Electrical Contractors Association of Nigeria (LECAN) ,
Chief Haruna Ahmed Osike, who lent his voice to the plight of the artisans in the district, said government at all level had been making concerted eff ort to encourage people to learn trade of their choice to be self reliant, stressing that a situation where the electricity distribution company continues to discourage them would spell doom for the state and the country at large.

 

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