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The Tanzania National Electricity Supply Company (Tanesco) in Dodoma region has incurred a loss of more than Sh72 million due to power theft and vandalism. The company’s Regional Information Officer, Innocent Lupenza, told The Citizen yesterday that a huge percentage of the damage was a result of illegal power connection and meter tampering among some dishonest customers.
He said an intensive operation was conducted throughout the region in which about 89 customers were found with different faults, mostly being meter-tampering.
“Most of the customers have cultivated a culture of tampering Tanesco meters in their homes so that they could pay low bills irrelevant to the actual power they consume. This has to a greater extent caused loss to the company” he said.
He, however, unveiled that the national power utility in cooperation with Police were continuing with serious impromptu inspections at different locations within the region to detect and arrest all clients who have tampered their meter or illegally connected power to their houses.
“Also vandalism and stealing of transformers, transformers’ oil and wires have also become rampant in some areas within the region, the situation that seriously derails our daily services,” he said.
In another development, Tanesco here faces acute shortage of electricity poles for supplying power to new customers in the region.
“Since January we have failed to supply power to new customers in the list, but we have already ordered poles from our supplier,” he said.
He said an intensive operation was conducted throughout the region in which about 89 customers were found with different faults, mostly being meter-tampering.
“Most of the customers have cultivated a culture of tampering Tanesco meters in their homes so that they could pay low bills irrelevant to the actual power they consume. This has to a greater extent caused loss to the company” he said.
He, however, unveiled that the national power utility in cooperation with Police were continuing with serious impromptu inspections at different locations within the region to detect and arrest all clients who have tampered their meter or illegally connected power to their houses.
“Also vandalism and stealing of transformers, transformers’ oil and wires have also become rampant in some areas within the region, the situation that seriously derails our daily services,” he said.
In another development, Tanesco here faces acute shortage of electricity poles for supplying power to new customers in the region.
“Since January we have failed to supply power to new customers in the list, but we have already ordered poles from our supplier,” he said.
