Delta Community Issues 3 Months Ultimatum To BEDC To Provide Prepaid Meters, Constant Light Or Quit The Land

UGHELLI Decendant Union, UDU, has issued a 3-month ultimatum to Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, operating in Ughelli, Delta State, to provide prepaid meters to every house in the kingdom and must ensure that within this period electricity supply is contant or it should be ready to quit the kingdom for other investors to come in. According to UDU, that Transcop Power company has enough of energy but BEDC refused to buy in other to generate light for the use of the people and yet they go about giving people…

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Many escape death as BEDC Poles Collapse In Ughelli

By Joel Grandball & Omamuzo Efidhere THERE was pandemonium in Ughelli community as two high tension poles with 11KVA belonging to Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, collapses along Isoko road in Otovwodo.  This is just the Business Manager, Ughelli Business District of the company, Mr Bethel Ebiuwhe and the Ughelli North Council chairman, Godwin Adode have warned traders under electricity lines to urgently vacate such areas in other to avoid being eletrocuted. Briefing newsmen after holding meeting with the Traditional ruler of Ughelli kingdom, HRM Wilson Oharisi III, and the…

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