{"id":43335,"date":"2020-09-24T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=43335"},"modified":"2020-09-24T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:21:11","slug":"poor-electricity-supply-aedc-gets-three-weeks-ultimatum-for-24-hours-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/poor-electricity-supply-aedc-gets-three-weeks-ultimatum-for-24-hours-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Electricity Supply: AEDC Gets Three Weeks Ultimatum For 24 Hours Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;As Niger State Assembly Threatens To Shutdown Shiroro, Kanji, Jebba Hydro Power Dams<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Olabode Aderamola<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Apparently worried by the epileptic power supply in the state, the Niger State House of Assembly rose from its\u00a0 plenary on Wednesday, issuing a three weeks ultimatum to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to provide customers with prepaid meters\u00a0 and uninterrupted 24 hours power supply in the state.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It said failure to meet its demand, the House of Assembly stated\u00a0 it will have no choice than to mobilize the entire state to shutdown all the three Hydro\u00a0 Electricity Power dams in the state.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This ultimatum was coming on the heels\u00a0 of\u00a0 the state Assembly&#8217;s\u00a0 one day stakeholders meeting to deliberate on the poor electricity supply to the state despite the &#8220;criminal estimated\u00a0 bills&#8221; to consumers.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The House of assembly also asked the Abuja\u00a0 Electricity Distribution Company( AEDC)\u00a0 to provide consumers with pre paid meters before the expiration of the three weeks ultimatum.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Chairman house committee on labour, Hon.\u00a0 Malik Madaki Bosso who made position of the house known after the stakeholders meeting described as unacceptable, the excuses by AEDC&#8217;s Management and Staff that consumers were not paying their electricity bills\u00a0 as responsible for the poor power supply.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Lawmakers lamented that with all the three hydro power\u00a0 dams in the state, the state can not enjoy 24 hours power supply, stressing that &#8220;we will no longer take this from AEDC&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patently worried by the epileptic power supply in the state, the Niger State House of Assembly rose from its\u00a0 plenary on Wednesday, issuing a three weeks ultimatum to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to provide customers with prepaid meters\u00a0 and uninterrupted 24 hours power supply in the state.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7398,2964,772],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-43335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-abuja-electricity-distribution-company","tag-epileptic-power-supply","tag-niger-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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