AEDC MASAKA: AND THE DEMAND FOR GRATIFICATION   

AEDC MASAKA: AND THE DEMAND FOR GRATIFICATION   

By: Balami Lazarus     

I had been shaped by my up- bringing, religious faith and all that I had  learned as a child and as a young man from my moderate late father of blessed memory and a conservative mother who were advocates of unity, peace and social justice. The various human rights groups that I was once a member have conditioned me to stand and fight for whatever just causes life might throw at me. Similarly, the radical academic environment I grew up in.

The radical educational school of thought I was trained in has also helped and set my views about life. Therefore, I am never, and I shall not be afraid to speak or fight for my right in a just cause or to lose my job or my life. With these background credentials, I am never comfortable with individuals, government agencies and corporate organisations that tend to play foul in their conduct or activities.     

Corporate organisations are basically profit making business concerns. These going concerns are either promoting, marketing or selling their products or providing services for their esteemed customers within and around their business catchment areas. Moreso, they are known for good corporate culture and governance. But not so with some, theirs is this way for a shroud.     

Let me take the case of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) that distributes the sale of their electric energy and other services to those in need of such services. I narrow my pen- lashes to the company and their staff/ workers being at Masaka Area Office- Karu Nasarawa State where I did some findings into their activities with regards to their customer services/ relationship having once fallen a victim of their workers act of corruption. What I found out was a territory full of vultures and honey bergers among staff and workers.   

Is AEDC really a corporate organisation or a mere business centre? This is one organisation where I see corporate indiscipline, monkey business, customers are threatened, bad use of language, trespassing, wrongful disconnections, illegal removal of service wires and corruptlly demand for gratification. These are some of the typical wrongdoings of  AEDC as a corporate entity.     

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Digging deeper into AEDC Masaka, there was this case against one Mrs Gloria Ibrahim  on trespassing, wrongful removal of service wires and corruptly demanded  and received the sum of #2000. I was able to cite the complaint letter written to the Area Manager acknowledged receipt on the 16th September, 2021.

The beauty of the said letter was professionally written with all the needed facts, including the said amount with their serial numbers and year of mint. With dozens of such letters against Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), what is the fate of this company? I foresee a fall in their customer base that will create ways for alternative energy sources.     

It might not be in my generation that someday, one day AEDC and others of its kind will be out of business and phased out by high- tech sources of energy supply to homes and industries. Take the case of Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (Nitel) and States Water Corporations also known as Water Board. Children born a few years ago are not aware of such government corporations. Today they are history, laying in the bin without corporate funeral rites if at all there is anything of such.     

Balami, a Publisher/ Columnist.    08036779290

AEDC MASAKA: AND THE DEMAND FOR GRATIFICATION