EKEDC SURULERE MARSHAL OFFICE SLAM A TENANT WITH A ( N150,000:00 ) PENALTY CHARGE FOR ELECTRICAL BYEPASS.

https://kingstonco.blogspot.com EKEDC Officials (Wale and Sylvester, on official duty ) Sylvester -- ol boy, see oh ,did you see what I am seeing ? Wale – what are you seeing? Sylvester -- See bye pass! Wale -- Where? Sylvester --- Look at this cable running into this very apartment upstairs there, there is a 3 phase wire but only one of it is connected into the prepaid meter, the rest direct into the apartment! Wale -- erhh, Anyway let make our report to the office! Two weeks later .The EKEDC officials storm the location of the crime EKEDC Office Marketer in charge -- Gba! gba! gba! ( bang at the gate) and a voice responded from inside the compound. Response -- Yes who is it? EKEDC Office Marketer in charge -- Good morning madam, please we are here to check on your meters? Landlady -- Ok, am coming please (She opened the gate for the officials to step into the compound). And after a little while she spoke to the land lady EKEDC Office Marketer in charge - - Madam did you know that this tenant of yours had committed an offence of electrical bye pass? (Explaining the connection how it were fixed to clarify to the landlady how it meant to be a bye pass) Landlady -- How I don’t understand! EKEDC Office Marketer in charge -- Wale don’t disconnect the cable from the pole yet, to start with him, let’s invite him to our office. Wale -- Ok madam. So after two weeks when they have met with the tenant, they agreed to come together at the location of the crime to establish their claim as he was claiming that he didn’t commit any crime from his connection. David Issac Aniebet – This connection here is not bye pass like I said.” Look madam if you go into my apartment now and I switch off this prepaid meter from its breaker here, you will see that the whole light in my apartment will switch off! EKEDC Office Marketer in charge -- This meter is a one- phase meter but here you ran a 3 phase cable wire connected from the supply pole into your apartment, 2 phase of the wire went direct into your apartment and a neutral and the third- phase is connected to the prepaid meter that serve this apartment, now you are here arguing with me that you did not bye pass! David Aniebet -- Madam this is not bye pass you just go inside and I from the meter put off the breaker, my light goes off! So how is this bye pass? As the argument went on and on wale went up to the current supply pole and disconnected his cables from the pole as told him by his boss and they all left off from him. Thus, another two other weeks later the crime penalty charge was delivered for Mr. David Isaac Aniebet in the sum of # 150,000: 00 naira. The landlady interrogation Landlady -- Brother David, since you claim this your connection here is not a bye pass you need to go to their head office and lodge your complain. David Aniebet -- Yes, but they weren’t listening to me. He went to their Marshal Office to argue still all to no avail. Landlady -- (After a month since the disconnection ) See, since nothing had been done and you are already charged; now you are to see to how to clear the charge from the prepaid account! Now he was charged to pay everything on the prepaid account plus the debt he was owing before the penalty charge before he can be reconnected to power supply but since August 2021 when he was disconnected till date of this publication he has not paid a dime, he declined instead leaving in the dark with his two children and wife. Landlady & Family – Please Mr. David you need to resolve this issue before December since you are to vacate the apartment this December due to the renovation to be carried out this december as we both agreed. David Aniebet – But I do not know anything about this bye pass, so please let it not appear to you that I did the bye pass because the day the technician came to install the pre-paid meter I was not around. (Now he is denying knowing anything about the crime). Land lady – Anyway you need to clear the charge plus the debt you are owing on the account, all is needed to be cleared now! David Isaac – But madam, you people are owing twenty eight thousand naira outstanding on the account before, so please go and pay that first ,then I will also do the payment of the charges. Thereafter, the matter escalated to police station and from then he kept a frowned face, though the police I.P.O advised him to do the needful but declined till now. https://kingstonco.blogspot.com