By Tifanne RamphalThe unease of Non Pareil/ Enterprise, East Coast Demerara villagers has almost come to an end. According to reports, up until late yesterday evening, Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) staffers were working to restore electricity to residents in the communities.After repeated consultations with GPL offices, the residents were finally brought up to speed with the steps that were needed to be taken in order to have their homes repowered.AFC MP Khemraj Ramjattan addressing residents.Yesterday, dozens of persons converged at the Sheriff Street office where AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan was present. He acknowledged that, “in Guyana there is a huge set of thievery of (electricity),” and stressed that he was vehemently against the theft of electricity but is prepared to defend the people who were wrongfully disconnected by GPL.The parliamentarian added that he finds the situation to be “very,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, very strange” since an entire community was singled out for electricity theft. He said that based on what he has been informed of, “some of the big boys with all dem big air conditioned houses probably does thief more electricity than the whole community”.“I don’t want innocent people to be paying the penalty here,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and that is why I am also here. But those who stole, well fine, if they got to be penalized,Cheap NFL Jerseys, let them be penalized,” Ramjattan said.According to residents,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, on Sunday and Monday last, during GPL’s loss reduction campaign,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, their electricity meters were taken away on charges that they were involved in a community-wide electricity theft. The meters were subsequently taken to the Loss Reduction Department where they were further investigated and revealed signs of tampering or having a system in place to create a diversion of power where only a fraction of the energy consumed would have been recorded. Based on the findings of the investigations, residents were informed that they would have to pay the penalties to compensate for the losses incurred by the power company.Following a meeting by Government and GPL officials on Tuesday evening and a later review of the cases by GPL staffers, a conclusion was reached,NFL Jerseys From China, which required customers to make payments to the company’s commercial office before their electricity could be restored. It was reported that the meters that were taken away would not be returned to the consumers. Instead, they would be issued with the recently introduced prepaid meters. Residents expressed favour with this decision since they would “know how their money is being spent.”At the commercial office, those who had not previously made any payments were required to pay a total sum of $23,200 which covered an investigation fee, a replacement fee and a reconnection fee. Some had already made this payment on Tuesday. In addition, based on the accuracy of the projected reading by the meter when compared to the total appliances that a consumer owned, a ‘back bill’ was applied to the consumer’s account, 40% of which had to be paid before measures can be taken to repower the consumer. Those whose meter reading coincided with the energy consumed by the appliances were not required to pay the added sum.After meeting at the Sheriff Street office yesterday, where a further review of some cases took place, the residents were forwarded to make their payments. They were promised that once their payments were made, they would be repowered within two days. Most residents are expecting to be repowered today while it was confirmed that some had been up and running last evening.