BPC explains high connectivity costs

BPC spokesperson Mbaki Kgwarae, told the Mogoditshane-Thamaga Sub-Council meeting that only villages and towns that always had a standard cost of connecting electricity will benefit from the P5,000 flat rate. He explained that all areas that did not have the standard cost will continue to get varying quotations until such a time that they will be included in the programme.

"We will move towards the P5,000 standard cost," he explained to councillors who had slammed BPC for outrageous connectivity costs. He said that though the process is slow, they are reimbursing all those who were charged higher than the standard cost in the Mogoditshane-Thamaga area. Kgwarae was responding to councillors who had complained that BPC has failed to fulfill its promise to charge a standard connection fee of P5,000 in the area.