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GPL is targeting the wrong people

Jan 25, 2012 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
It’s regrettable to see GPL officials going after consumers they deem guilty of electricity theft and planning to go the extra mile to scare people from continuing this unscrupulous act that has been proven to be costly and at times, deadly. The company is not going after their employees who are the main culprits.
I don’t know who GPL is trying to fool, but we all know that consumers cannot tamper or bypass any of the new meters that the company has been installing with the security feature (seal) introduced a few years ago.
Approximately all the meters have seals. The new pre-paid meters are installed on the post high up with a seal that is beyond reach and intimidating to a consumer. So how could they be charged? As mentioned in a previous letter of electricity theft by me, I am saying that whenever a meter is installed, checked or being replaced, the staff puts on the security seal and signs a form.
Now if GPL made so many successful raids, then they should check the record for that meter and charge the person that installs the seal.
A consumer cannot know what is going on inside a meter after it has been sealed, so why charge the consumer alone when GPL employees alone handle the meter?
On Monday I saw GPL also complaining of Illegal street light connections. Everyone wants his or her area bright. So why give only ten lights to a area which has more than 20 streets?
All the street lights work with sensors and when GPL is called to repair them, the technicians find that the faults lie with the sensors mainly. The technicians usually bypass the sensors thus causing them to burn through the day and thus serve no purpose and waste money.
Instead of blaming consumers, the power company should be blaming itself, because it’s GPL incompetence that leads to corruption and waste.
Sahadeo Bates

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