Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Usman Sule Gomna, psc.
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar –
The Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Usman Gomna has faulted the management of Port-Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company( PHEDC) over its fraudulent and outrageous billing to the Zone 6 Police Headquarters in Calabar.
AIG Sule described the act of disconnecting the Zone or anyone without prior information and proper procedures as criminal.
“That after a round table agreement on payment modalities in addition government allocation for electricity, courtesy of the peace loving AIG, the Zone had not defaulted to warrant disconnection without notification by the PHED against the laid down procedures”.
“That the act of disconnecting the Zone or anyone without prior information is criminal and negates section 9 and 10 of the Miscellaneous Offences Act chapter M17. The Zone will definitely approach the NERC with this misconduct.
“It’s an abberation and a clear expression of loathing by Port-Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company( PHED) desire to defraud the Zone in name of meeting set target for light never supplied”, The Police AIG said in a statement issued on Friday.
According to the statement: “The attention of Zone 6 Police Headquarters Calabar, has been drawn to the mendacious publication making the rounds on social media handles that AIG Usman Gomna arrests PHED Regional Manager illegally”.
“The Zone under the dynamic leadership of AIG Usman Sule Gomna psc, has been civil and highly professional in the discharge of its policing duties with respect to human rights”.
“Zone 6 is a Federal establishment not the property of the AIG and knows where to channel his outrageous bills to if any”.
“This development is disturbing to the Zone, hence the compelling need to state the true position and disabuse the minds of the public with regards to the veracious publication being circulated”, he said.
AIG Gumna, however, said the installation of an industrial metre in an office that has no factory is fraudulent and a gross violation of customer’s right.
He also debunked social media reports alleging that The PHEDC Regional Manager was arrested but rather was asked in a meeting to explain the reason for incessant disconnection of a government establishment that houses detention facility and an armoury office without following the procedures prescribed by the regulatory body
“That labeling such a magnanimous man that agreed to use his money to pay for light that is rarely seen in a government office as “power drunk” is absord.
“Consequently, members of the public are enjoined to disregard the misleading publication as the law abiding AIG will leave no stone unturned in policing the Zone in accordance with international best practice”, he said in the statement.
