Disco will pay N20m damages to the community for the blackout
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A Delta State High Court sitting in Oghara, Delta State, ordered the Beninese Electricity Development Company to pay a sum of 20 million naira as damages to the community of Edjemuonyavwe in Oghara and to reconnect the community to the national grid.
The community would have been disconnected from the national network since November 2017.
The trial judge, Judge A.A. Ighoverio, while rendering judgment in the lawsuit marked HCH/29/2018 and filed by the community of Urhobo against the BEDC, said the disconnection of the community from the electricity network as illegal in the event of non-compliance by the nightclub with the current electrical regulations.
As a result, the court ordered the immediate reconnection of electricity in the claimants' community and further ordered the defendant, BEDC, to pay the community the sum of N20 million to as general damages.
The court dismissed BEDC's counterclaim for payment of N174,210,449.92 alleged to be an unpaid bill.
Our correspondent was told there was jubilation in the agrarian community when news of the judgment broke.
It was learned that in 2016 the community agreed to mass metering of electricity consumption in its five neighborhoods comprising about 300 rural households.
Residents claimed that after approximately 16 months into the said contract and with the continued payment of agreed bills, the community was suddenly presented with a total bill of N174,210,449.92 as unpaid , a development that did not sit well with them.
Community leaders, therefore, went to court to challenge the said bill which they called false, esteemed and inflated, and demanded clarification, including on the ground that there were no industries inside. the community or heavy commercial activities likely to consume such bills.
It has further been learned that community leaders initially sought an amicable resolution to the dispute, until the company allegedly disconnected the power supply from any the community, without serving the relevant legal opinion in November 2017, crippling economic activities. in the region
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A Delta State High Court sitting in Oghara, Delta State, ordered the Beninese Electricity Development Company to pay a sum of 20 million naira as damages to the community of Edjemuonyavwe in Oghara and to reconnect the community to the national grid.
The community would have been disconnected from the national network since November 2017.
The trial judge, Judge A.A. Ighoverio, while rendering judgment in the lawsuit marked HCH/29/2018 and filed by the community of Urhobo against the BEDC, said the disconnection of the community from the electricity network as illegal in the event of non-compliance by the nightclub with the current electrical regulations.
As a result, the court ordered the immediate reconnection of electricity in the claimants' community and further ordered the defendant, BEDC, to pay the community the sum of N20 million to as general damages.
The court dismissed BEDC's counterclaim for payment of N174,210,449.92 alleged to be an unpaid bill.
Our correspondent was told there was jubilation in the agrarian community when news of the judgment broke.
It was learned that in 2016 the community agreed to mass metering of electricity consumption in its five neighborhoods comprising about 300 rural households.
Residents claimed that after approximately 16 months into the said contract and with the continued payment of agreed bills, the community was suddenly presented with a total bill of N174,210,449.92 as unpaid , a development that did not sit well with them.
Community leaders, therefore, went to court to challenge the said bill which they called false, esteemed and inflated, and demanded clarification, including on the ground that there were no industries inside. the community or heavy commercial activities likely to consume such bills.
It has further been learned that community leaders initially sought an amicable resolution to the dispute, until the company allegedly disconnected the power supply from any the community, without serving the relevant legal opinion in November 2017, crippling economic activities. in the region
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