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Since last July 27, the Fifth Civil Court of the Barranquilla Circuit issued a payment order in favor of Electricaribe and against the District of Barranquilla for more than $ 45,392 million.
In agreements signed with Electricaribe, the district administration agreed that “the municipality will be jointly and severally responsible for the fulfillment of the obligations of the community subscriber”, that is, for the energy consumed in the subnormal neighborhoods of the city. The debt of this obligation, as of July 2020, already exceeds $ 61,742 million.
During this year, the collection in the subnormal neighborhoods does not exceed 3.8% of the value of the energy they consume; Of the more than $ 3,195 million that have been invoiced to date in these sectors, Electricaribe has only been paid $ 123 million. This collection has been deteriorating in a worrying way: in 2018 it was 8.2% and in 2019 it was 7.2%.
The lawsuit filed by Electricaribe against the District of Barranquilla to make effective the payment of these more than $ 45 billion in energy from the subnormal neighborhoods, was presented after several years of conversations with the administrations of this capital, which have the responsibility to respond severally for your payment.
Electricaribe’s Special Agent, Angela Patricia Rojas Combariza, stated that: “it should be clear to everyone that this debt will not disappear with the arrival of the new operator of the Caribe Sol market, on October 1, and the District will have to cancel it. The start of operations of the new lending companies does not mean a clean slate of the debts that customers have with the company. “
Electricaribe has bought and supplied subnormal neighborhoods for several decades with all the energy that their inhabitants have consumed. No utility company has the capacity to absorb debts of these dimensions, this affects its normal operation and threatens the provision of the service to other users throughout the Caribbean Coast.
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