ACC SHOULD INVESTIGATE PEC...
AS THEY STILL HAVE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER
By Ranger
It is now crystal clear, that PEC is misleading the public to gather public sympathy to continue it bad and unviable contract with EDSA to wreck the energy sector and the government as a whole.
Let me first and foremost set the record straight on the GST which PEC now claims to have cascading effects on the customers.
Firstly, let me state that GST is a law passed by parliament, so how can PEC meters affect it. This is not only consider as a public incitement but also a ploy to prevent the public to comply to GST law.
Secondly, it is also evident that EDSA has lost huge sum of money with PEC, because the lost customers activity due to it inability to charge, poor customer service etc and besides EDSA could not know what was being consumed apart from what PEC told them.
This is where the real fraud was taking place that needs ACC investigation. In a nutshell, it seems PEC is trying to get EDSA to do something illegal, by operating a contract that has expired which is pure dishonesty.
Let me also hasten to inform the general public that, the meters that PEC illegally removed were also installed by an indigenous Sierra Leonean company that has successfully installed over 20,000 meters. This shows that EDSA does encourage Local content, but does not condone dishonesty and compromise national progress for the sake of selfish private interests.
Following the failure of PEC to answer to the questions asked by the general public in relation to its contractual agreement with EDSA that has tendency to rip off the country of it much needed revenue, the general public is now calling on the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate PEC on it numerous queries raised.
Below are the following questions PEC continues to dodge that need the attention of the President as the country is certainly be on a time bomb if PEC Contract is renewed without adequately answering to these questions;
The public still demand answers to these following questions:
1. Is it true that EDSA does not have accessed to PEC’s system for monitoring and supervision purposes, and could this be one of the reasons why EDSA decided to terminate its contract with PEC?.
2. Is it true that PEC Smart meters are not compatible with the ones installed by EDSA?
3. Is it true that in installing their Smart meters, PEC removed EDSA meters that were already installed without noticing EDSA and without EDSA’s permission, thereby constituting an offence to remove government property? PEC could favour us with the written permission for EDSA to this effect.
4. Is it true that the PEC contract was limited to only the six months pilot project?
5. Is it true that PEC was collecting a whopping 10 percent commission from the bills it collected, while others were collecting 3%?
6. Is it true that EDSA had no access to the transactions done by PEC? If so, is it not a violation of the disclosure agreement reached by PEC with EDSA?
7. Is it true that costumers were complaining that, they were paying and not getting service on time?
8. Is it true that PEC on its own selected areas to install their Smart meters?
9. Is it true that after the contract expired in June 2016, the meters installed by PEC became the property of EDSA?
10. Most importantly, did PEC receive authorization from EDSA to install their meters? If so, can they produce original documents from EDSA?
These and yet more questions are of great interest to the general public and deserve answers.
As a result of that the are now calling on the ACC to frog match PEC officials to the commission to answer to these following questions and also investigate why PEC being a local contractor which has benefited from the Local Content Policy is collecting 10% commission of it total sales, while past foreign contractors were collecting 3% of their total sales.
This exorbitant commission collected by PEC, they said has some elements of corruption and kick backs, and therefore needs immediate investigation as they had betrayed the Local Content Policy and portrays bad image about the government.
It will interest the general public to know that the much trumpeted 2 billion Leones collected by PEC, PEC has benefited a whopping 200 million Leones from the said amount which constitute 10%.
Consequently, one would want to wonder why PEC is still behaving like a nuisance?
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