3,500 without electricity in Kosovo

For a week now four Serb villages in Kosovsko Pomoravlje have been without electricity.

Izvor: Tanjug

Monday, 27.04.2009.

19:39

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For a week now four Serb villages in Kosovsko Pomoravlje have been without electricity. The villages in question are Silovo, Ropotovo, Drenovac and Kolorec. Locals are refusing to start paying their electricity bills which the Kosovo Electric Corporation (KEK) has demanded, local official Dragan Nikolic said. 3,500 without electricity in Kosovo “On Wednesday we will have a meeting with officials of the municipality on the level of the Kosovsko Pomoravski region. After that, we'll see what we will do next,” Nikolic said. He added that neither government officials nor KEK representatives had contacted them. There are about 3,500 people living in this region of Kosovo. During protests because of similar power cuts last month, 14 villagers of Silovo were injured in clashes with Kosovo police, KPS. Silovo residents were without electricity for over a month at the beginning of the year. Several villages have received electricity, however: Priluzje, Grace, Plemetina and Babin Most, have all reached an agreement with KEK. According to municipal official in Vucitrn, Stojadin Tomic, electricity was turned on after an agreement for paying for the bills, which will total to EUR 26 per household. “The people accepted and all four villages will be paying for electricity, without signing anything and added guarantees,” he told Tanjug. There are more than 5,000 people living in these villages in 460 households. Because of unpaid bills to KEK, the villages did not have electricity for three days. KEK officials told Tanjug news agency earlier that the company will be turning off electricity for all who do not pay their bills. “We want to make sure that all consumers are paying for electricity, and to turn it off for those that do not,” KEK spokesperson Viktor Buzala said.

3,500 without electricity in Kosovo

“On Wednesday we will have a meeting with officials of the municipality on the level of the Kosovsko Pomoravski region. After that, we'll see what we will do next,” Nikolić said.

He added that neither government officials nor KEK representatives had contacted them.

There are about 3,500 people living in this region of Kosovo. During protests because of similar power cuts last month, 14 villagers of Šilovo were injured in clashes with Kosovo police, KPS.

Šilovo residents were without electricity for over a month at the beginning of the year.

Several villages have received electricity, however: Prilužje, Grace, Plemetina and Babin Most, have all reached an agreement with KEK.

According to municipal official in Vučitrn, Stojadin Tomić, electricity was turned on after an agreement for paying for the bills, which will total to EUR 26 per household.

“The people accepted and all four villages will be paying for electricity, without signing anything and added guarantees,” he told Tanjug.

There are more than 5,000 people living in these villages in 460 households. Because of unpaid bills to KEK, the villages did not have electricity for three days.

KEK officials told Tanjug news agency earlier that the company will be turning off electricity for all who do not pay their bills.

“We want to make sure that all consumers are paying for electricity, and to turn it off for those that do not,” KEK spokesperson Viktor Buzala said.

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