3,500 Serbs remain without electricity
For a week now four Serb villages in Kosovsko Pomoravlje have been without electricity.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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.
"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.
"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.
