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Stakeholder Democracy Network | 24 April, 2018

SDN surveyed the views of household and business electricity users on

electricity sector corruption in the Niger Delta. The survey was carried out in selected rural,

semi-urban and urban locations in Delta and Edo states. These included Warri-Edjegba, Udu,

Sapele, Benin GRA, Sakponda Benin, and Utagban. The report examines data generated from

720 electricity consumers on corruption issues in the electricity sector in the distribution area

of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC).

The report finds that corruption is prevalent in the BEDC distribution area, and that power

consumers, BEDC employees and the distribution company (DISCO) itself are complicit. Common

forms of corruption include illegal connections to the grid, the evasion or underpayment of bills,

and the partial or complete diversion of load from the visibility of the metering system