Milton Morrison, the general manager of the EdeSur power distributor in the capital city, admitted to mafias inside and outside the power distributor in an interview for Diario Libre. He says these affect the quality of the service.
Edesur’s general manager told Diario Libre that he is fully aware that in that public company there are mafias dedicated to hindering customers to receive bribes.
He addressed issues such as contractors stating that there are no cables in stock to carry out a repair, and then when the client offers to pay, the cable appears.
Milton Morrison says he is determined to confront the corruption schemes. He said the corruption scheme is present in the line men of the contractors, the contractors and internal employees at Edesur’s offices.
Employees at the commercial office in Centro de los Heroes reportedly inform people who come to open a new contract or to request 220 volts that there are no power meters or cables. But the manager of Edesur told Diario Libre that Edesur has 12,000 power meters and enough meters of cables in stock.
“Those same people who tell you that there is no cable, and those same linemen, when a client bribes them and they give them 500 pesos, the cable appears at once, so, was there or was there not? There is a mechanism that we are pursuing of people who are doing harm,” he told Diario Libre. Diario Libre reported that bribes of RD$8,000 to get a job done, are not unusual.
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Diario Libre
29 May 2023