Meter fraud: SEEG loses 50 billion FCFA per year

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2024-08-12 01:52:38

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DIG/ According to the conclusions of a diagnosis made on the activities of the Energy and Water Company of Gabon (SEEG), the company records annual financial losses up to 50 billion FCFA, of which she is a victim of that fraud.

Next to 30% of the fleet would be in case of fraud.

“In Greater Libreville alone, electricity fraud averages 1.1 billion in invoice amounts per month.

Although for water, it is on average 970,000 FCFA of what is to be billed per month,” the audit report reveals. Before specifying:

« As a result of fraud direct cable connections, shunts on the meter terminals, inverted meters, blocked steps on three-phase meters, lack of seals on the meters, fraudulent extensions or pirate networks, mismatch between the subscription powers and the field powers, the meters stored . in the SEEG software but still active in the field or even non-historical storage meters.

Today, we estimate that this phenomenon affects more than one in five people.

Likewise, almost 30% of the fleet is in fraud, or one in three customers.

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