Six workers Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC have been sacked following incidents of corruption against customers.
The management of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, disclosed that it dismissed six of its workers over incidents of corruption against customers.
It also disclosed that 15,000 meters are available for pick in Osun state without any type of stress, urging the public to desist from buying illicit meters.
Fielding questions from journalists after a stakeholders forum in Ilesa, Osun state on Thursday on issues of service delivery to customers, the Lead, Media Relation of IBEDC, Busola Tunwase, said the company will not tolerate any form of corruption among its workers.
She urged customers to blow the whistle against some of its workers involved in swindling the public, saying such acts will be seriously dealt with as similar issues are being investigated against some of its staff.
Her words; “IBEDC will not tolerate corruption, any form of act of swindling customers, we take that offence very seriously. We started the whistle-blowing campaign for customers to feel free to come and complain of cases of impropriety from any of our staff. Such cases will be investigated and if the staffer is found wanting they will be shown the door.
“We have sacked six staff in recent times, we have sacked more before and there are ongoing cases related to that, we will continue to sanitize the system and to ensure that we deliver excellent service”.
She added that the forum is to further inform the public on issues of illicit meters which is a major hindrance to the progress of power distribution in the region to cooperate to resolve the menace.
“We are here to educate and enlighten stakeholders on how to detect illicit meters in the state because it has been a challenging issue. We are here to speak to them to stop using illicit meters and blow whistle on those using them.
“We are urging them to embrace our metering scheme. In Osun alone, we have over 15,000 meters for our customers and they don’t need to follow the bottleneck of going for registration and all, they can just pay to designated bank accounts send proof of payment and they will get the meter.
“On the issue of staff assault, it is a big challenge in the sector and we are letting our customers know that it is a crime under the law. They have rights, yet, our workers too have and we will not hesitate to enforce their rights when encroached”, she added