Residents of the Nikšić settlement of Ćemenca have been without electricity for more than 30 hours, while no one from the Montenegrin Electricity Distribution System (CEDIS) is answering their phones, nor have they received any notification from the state-owned company about when they will have electricity again.
This was stated by the president of the Ćemenca Local Community (MZ) council, Balša Blečić, in a statement sent to the media.
"Our local community has been without electricity for more than 30 hours. The situation in the settlement is more than alarming and resembles an offensive. Most families with small babies and sick people have had to move out of the settlement in search of a normal way of life. In some houses where elderly and sick people who use oxygen are, they had to turn on generators to inhale. Many households have thrown away the winter food they had been storing for the whole year from their freezers because it has spoiled, and the same thing is threatening to happen to others. All this is made worse by the lack of seriousness of the CEDIS managers who do not answer the emergency phones and who do not come out with any information for the locals so that they know how to proceed," the statement said.
Blečić added that as of this morning, the water is not drinkable due to increased turbidity, and locals are unable to boil it because their electricity has been turned off.
"We hereby inform our residents, neighbors, that the Local Community Council is here to help as much as possible with whatever is needed," concluded the council president.
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