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Occupants of the new Orisumbare Shopping complex in Osogbo on Thursday, accused the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC, of fraudulently inflating its electricity bills.
The occupants of the government-owned complex blocked the entrance of the IBEDC headquarters in Osun, alleging that the electricity company illegally altered its tariff twice within without informing the management of the market.
The IBEDC, according to the occupants, alleged that some months ago the tariff was changed from 42 to 58 without notifying them and consequently, altered from 58 to 61 on their transformer.
Speaking with the chairman of the electricity committee of new Orisumbare, Oni Folorunsho, lamented, “what happened was, the transformer we are using seems to have been tampered with.