Godwin Obaseki, Governor Of Edo StateAgainst the backdrop of incessant hostility mounted on its operation, electricity consumers in Edo State, especially those hiding under the cover of civil rights advocacy to foist unlawful conducts, and the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, have been urged to desist from doing so fortwith or face legal actions.
A group with 46 allied Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), Transparency Advocacy for Development Initiative (TADI), Abuja, made this declaration at a World Press Conference addressed by its National Convener, Comrade Solomon Adodo at Abia House, Abuja last Friday.
“We call on the Governor of Edo State to forthwith refrain from antagonizing BEDC Electricity Plc and instead follow relevant rules and guidelines governed by clearly cut contract terms. The issue of power distribution in Edo State should not be unnecessarily politicised,” TADI stated.
“It should be made clear that all DISCOs are firmly protected by the contract terms and conditions under, which they were issued licences and it is on record that BEDC has not in any way breached such conditions” TADI said further.
According to the group, “we shall resist this evil at all costs in the best interest of sustainable business practice in order not to ward of future investors and / or frustrate the gains made thus far in the power sector”.
On this note, we call on the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET) and every concerned regulator to immediately come out and clear the air on the needless controversies being stirred to cripple the BEDC under its current management.
“If we do not get appropriate feedback within seven days of this notice, we shall be left with no other option but to embark on peaceful procession to these offices for the sake of sanity in our power sector”, the group stressed.
TADI said that as stakeholders, the federal government has representation on the board of respective DISCOs and it is totally at its discretion to appoint whoever she deems it fit to represent her interest in the DISCOs, saying further that “it is not the DISCOs that determine who federal government appoints as her representative contrary to what some naysayers would have us believe in the case of BEDC”.
“It is empirical to note that the respective DISCOs can only distribute the amount of power sold to them by NBET based on the Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) allocation allotted each DISCO. Thus contrary to wrong assertions, DISCOs are not allotted power based on what their respective states generate but as determined by NBET using the MYTO allocation system. It added.
TADI disclosed that it has identified with “patriotic disenchantment the consistent, brazen and expertly contrived attempts by certain unpatriotic elements to sabotage the dexterous efforts of BEDC to supply power to Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti States.
These findings, according to TADI indicated that the entities have launched media and physical attacks on BEDC and primarily bent on destroying the corporate reputation of BEDC on one hand and discredit the federal government’s roadmap for power stability.
BEDC Update To Customers In Benin City On Power Supply Situation
The Management of BEDC Electricity Plc. (BEDC) wishes to further publicly update its customers in Edo State (for the records) on the facts relating to the power situation in Benin City, Edo State, especially those who were affected by the disruption in power supply to some areas in Benin city, caused by the failed on November 7, 2018 of 60MVA power transformer T21 used by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to wheel electricity to some major feeders in Benin city.
For the records out of the three TCN transformers wheeling power to BEDC for distribution to its customers in in Benin City, two failed in quick succession between September 24th2018 and November 7th 2018, with reasons for the failures widely publicized before now. It should be noted that BEDC sells/distribute power to it’s customers in its franchise locations (Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti State) based on what is sold to the company from the TCN grid. Upon the failure of the two out of the three TCN transformers, TCN commenced worked assiduous to sort out the inconveniences that this dual failure caused by arranging for replacement transformers- with the first of the two transformers being made available to BEDC for power distribution on 24th Dec 2018.
In the meantime as a stop gap measure, BEDC immediately restored power supply at an average of 6hours daily availability to most of the affected areas, by connecting several of the customers on the affected feeders to the only existing functional TCN transformer in a manner that did not overload the system and to provide supply albeit on limited basis, pending when normal supply will resume, after the replacement of the faulty TCN transformers. BEDC also immediately commenced construction of new extending electrical lines from three different locations outside Benin to pull more power temporarily in Benin City.
We are pleased to inform our customers that based on the concerted effort of both Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), BEDC in conjunction with several well-meaning Nigerian stakeholders (including Ministry of Power, Edo State Government, the Irrua Community, some key stakeholders in the Senate, Federal House of Representative, Edo House of Assembly and several supportive customers in Edo State) one of the TCN replacement transformers which was taken from Irrua have subsequently been put to use with electricity supply commencing from this source to the affected Benin City areas as from the last week in December 2018 as shown below:
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POWER SITUATION IN BENIN METROPOLIS [ PRE and POST FAILURE OF T21, T23, 60MVA AT BENIN TS ] |
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BEDC 11KV BENIN CITY FEEDER |
NAME OF THE STREETS AND AREA AFFECTED |
AVERAGE AVAIL (HRS) AFTER PRIVATISATION AND PRE-TCN TRANSFORMER FAILURE |
AVERAGE AVAIL (HRS) POST-TCN TRANSFORMER FAILURE {07.11.2018} |
AVERAGE AVAILABILITY AFTER CHARGING SILUKO LINE FROM OKADA {10.12.2018} |
PRESENT AVERAGE AVAILABILITY (HRS) [ AFTER COMMISSIONING TCN TRANSFORME T23 ] [26.12.2018] |
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IHAMA |
IHAMA RD. GIWA-AMU, GRA, GAPIONA AND ENVIRON. |
15 |
15 |
6 |
15 |
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DUMEZ |
DUMEZ RD, MARIA GORRETTI RD, EWEKA AND ENVIRON. |
12 |
12 |
6 |
12 |
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ETETE-COMMERCIAL |
MD CUSTOMERS IN ETETE AXIS |
24 |
24 |
24 |
24 |
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UGBOR |
UGBOR RD, IDUSOGIE, GUOBADIA, ETETE, AND ENVIRON |
12 |
12 |
6 |
6 |
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UP’SAPELE |
ETETE, U/SAPELE RD, EREDIAWA, POLE STREET, AND ENVIRON |
12 |
12 |
6 |
6 |
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OGBA |
IRIRI, EBO, EVBODIA, ELOMO, UTAGBAN,EFIONAYI AND ITS ENVIRONS |
12 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
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OKO |
OKO ADP, PART OF IRIRI, OKO OGBA AIRPORT RD AND ITS ENVIRONS |
12 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
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OBA-PALACE |
OBA-PALACE RD, VEGETABLE MARKET RD, AIRPORT RD AND ENVIRON |
12 |
12 |
6 |
12 |
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GRA |
IJAGBODUDU, GOVERNOR SIDE, OGHARA-EFE COMM. OGHARA-MARKET. |
15 |
15 |
9 |
12 |
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RESERVATION |
GOLF COURSE RD, AKENZUA, EKEWAN RD COLLEGE RD, AIRPORT RD, GRA AND ENVIRON |
12 |
12 |
6 |
12 |
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AIRPORT COMMERCIAL |
MR BIGS,HALL MARK,KADA PLAZA,EDO LIBRUARY,HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY,BENINI CLUB,CBN,BENIN AIRPORT,PRESTIGE HOTEL,LILI HOSPITAL AND ITS ENVIRONS |
24 |
24 |
21 |
24 |
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ANDREW-WILSON |
PZ RD, SAPELE RD, GODWIN ABBE, LIMIT RD, AND ENVIRON. |
12 |
12 |
6 |
6 |
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COUNTRY HOME |
COUNTRY HOME RD, UGBOR RD, ABUJA QTRS, UU DRIVE, STELLA OBASANJO WOMEN & CHILDREN HOSPITAL AND ENVIRON. |
12 |
12 |
6 |
6 |
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EKAE |
EKAE, EVBUABOGUN, EVBUOMOMA, EVBUKU, KILOMETER 8 SAPELE ROADAND ITS ENVIRON. |
12 |
12 |
6 |
6 |
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ARUOGBA |
EVBUODIA ,EVBUIYOBA,OGUNMWONYI, |
12 |
12 |
6 |
6 |
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EKEWAN |
EKEWAN RD, OGBE-IBUYA, AERODROME CLOSE, EREDIAWA RD, AND ENVIRON. |
12 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
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UPPER OWINA |
UPPER SAKPONBA RD AND ENVIRONS. |
6 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
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ASORO |
ODION, OGIEMUDIA, EGBON ESTATE, ABAIGBE, EKENWA AND UGBYEKU COMMUNITY |
6 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
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EVBUOTUBU |
EVBUOTUBU RD, IKPEA RD, USE, UAGHOGBO |
6 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
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UPPER SILUKU |
U/SILUKORD, USEH, COOLEST AND ENVIRON |
6 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
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UWELU |
USELU, MEDICAL, EDAIKEN, BTC RD AND EVIRONS |
6 |
0 |
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