Dear Caleb, I have just perused the WENRECo application for tariff revision (increase). In a nut shell, I can only say that the company wants to hold consumers responsible for its technical failures and maladministration, not withstanding the government's own failures. The biggest question I am tempted to ask is, who will compensate the consumers for the losses of business they incurred during the time of the rampant power failures, which inevitably were beyond their control, yet WENRECo who was in control but failed is indirectly (I think even directly) crying over milk it spilled together with the government and wants to be compensated? My take is simple, from the language of application the consumers ceased to be stakeholders in the WENRECo power concession. Reading in between the lines, WENRECo: 1. Is technically looking for ways so that the government or its agents, with whom it may be in cohorts, extends its power generation, transmission and distribution concessions to beyond the current 20 years. 2. In the event the current 20 years concession expires, WENRECo would have thoroughly satisfied its appetite for money and wouldn't regret packing its bags assuming the tariff increase is granted by our usually uncaring government. 3. With this trend of events would even demand compensation from consumers, is the latter in future decided to protest high tariffs by agreeing to not consume WENRECo power for some days. Otherwise some of the citations to justify the increment seem to rub us on the wrong side, particularly the case of distribution poles, where every Arua, Nebbi and Zombo consumer knows how much they had to cough in order to get connected. Lastly for now, I believe WENRECo must have and still benefits from the Ugandan tax payers' money. I would suggest WNF demands some action from our parliamentarians, if they are with and for us in that house. The parliamentarians may need to draft a motion for debate in parliament to: 1. Restrain ERA from taking this decision in the time frame provided by law, since ERA may not have the capacity and interest to query claims of the applicant. 2. Take this matter; and through instruments of government demand a forensic report by the Office of the Auditor General on WENRECo operations in order to have the public input to query their claims and lay the facts bare for our consumption before ERA rushes to grant tariff increase. Some consumer action may need to be seriously considered and coordinated. Aggrey Adrale --- On Mon, 11/3/13, Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Application by WENRECO to increase Tarrifs To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 11 March, 2013, 8:43 Can our technical persons like Eng. George Afi, e.t.c react so that we submit our objections as the Foundation Sent from my iPhone On Mar 9, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Wanni Norman <[email protected]> wrote: Please find a copy of the application letter by WENRECO requesting to increase Electricity tariff to 600+ per unit. see application request on era website www.era.or.ug We have been informed of a project to connect additional users supported 70% by Rural Electrification Project 30% by the community. Not sure of what WENRECOs contribution to this proposed is project. The project will connect something of over 1000 newlines . Should they really increase tariffs ? Any technical guys out there who can challenge WENRECO with facts? APPLICATION FOR INCREASE IN ELECTRICITY END USER TARIFF BY WEST NILE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION COMPANY LIMITED WENRECO has applied for an increase in the electricity end-user tariff See Application The application can also be viewed at the LC V chairpersons’ offices of Arua, Nebbi and Zombo between 8:30am and 4:30pm during working days.Written comments and objections on the application should be submitted within fifteen (15) days after date of publication to the following address P.O. Box 10332 Kampala-Uganda or Email; [email protected] Daet of publication was 4th March 2013 Wanni Norman<WENRECO-TARIFF-APPLICATION-2013-2.pdf>_______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________ -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________
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