Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company has lamented the rise in energy theft in the past three months of the Band A tariff increase.

This is even as the DisCo threatened that offenders caught in the act of energy theft would be immediately charged to court, reiterating that the era of merely imposing loss of revenue penalty alone on offenders is over.

The company made this announcement at its July Stakeholders Forum.

In a statement made available to our correspondent on Saturday, Ikeja Electric’s Head of Corporate Communication, Kingsley Okotie, lamented the increase in energy theft, “especially over the last three months following the implementation of the reviewed tariff on Band A feeders”.

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Okotie noted that the company and the entire electricity value chain cannot survive if energy theft goes unchecked.

“The theft is massive and the company cannot guarantee meeting customer expectations if this ugly trend continues. Ironically, some perpetrators believe that if they haven’t been caught, there are no consequences. This is false, and we must change the narrative,” he said.

Okotie stated that for the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry to survive, all stakeholders must fight in unison against theft, as the pilfering of electricity hinders the stability of the sector.


He emphasised that whatever happens to the power distribution companies affects the entire industry.

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