NamPower has announced its discontinuation of the disconnection plan for defaulting customers until August, as the government implements interventional measures to assist the power utility to collect the money owed to them.

In a media release issued by NamPower on Monday, the company said the government has set in motion a programme, until the end of August, that will implement needed measures to assist them in collecting the money owed to them from their customers.

It will therefore cease with the disconnection of electricity to defaulting customers.

The disconnection of electricity to defaulting customers was part of NamPower’s debt collection plan, aimed at settling large debts from some of their customers.

The disconnection plan included scheduled electrical disconnections at designated areas that had unsettled debts.

NamPower added that this decision was made last week during a consultative meeting between the NamPower Board of Directors and Management and the Minister of Finance and Public Enterprises.Meanwhile, NamPower is still encouraging defaulting customers to settle their debt.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency