nkpommpko: Until nigerians unanimously learn to say enough is enough we shall not see the end of this.

WisePer: Brief Intro:
I and my wife run a Photo Studio which opened for business at Anthony Village Lagos in March 2014, The delay was partly because of our insistence on having our power consumption metered, after waiting for many months for PHCN Ikeja Disco to supply us with a Meter as i paid for the one-room apartment in Oct. 2013.

I met PHCN Ikeja DISCO Senior Marketing Manager at Alausa Head office in August 2014, and persistently visited her office for more than twenty times before they finally installed a Digital post-paid meter to my Studio in December 2014.

PHCN marketer read my meter in March and April 2014 and stopped, when i inquired from the marketer in-charge of my street ( Adebayo Mokuolu Street, Anthony Village ) , she informed me that the batch of meters that were supplied then had Factory defect and the management asked them to place everyone that had the meter installed for on ESTIMATED CONSUMPTION. She promised that the Company will replace the faulty meter with a new one early this month( July 2014).

I was shocked to my bone marrow when my Bill for the month of May 2014 was delivered last month and I was billed fifften thousand , one hundred and seven naira, ( N15, 107), an amount I am not sure i realized from the months proceeds . I went to their Mende office to lodge my complaint and the same marketing officer wrote on a copy of my Nepa bill and promised to affect the change in the next billing.
Worth noting that I also visited IKEDC Head Office Customer care at Aluasa the same day to lodge the same complaint, they took my details and promised their engineers will call me within days to evaluate the meter and ascertain whether it is faulty or not. At the time of this post, I have not had any call from them.

The greater shock came today when the bill for June was delivered and I had fourteen Thousand four hundred and thirty nine naira ( N14, 439 ) to pay. It might interest you to know that my previous bills for March and April were below 2,000 as business is slowly picking up because we are new in the neighborhood.

I have made up my mind to write to PHCN to officially DISCONNECT me off from their supply and stop sending me their frustrating bills as I will make arrangement to source and install an INVERTER and manage it with my Gen set. With this I will be able to regulate my cost and spend on Fuel only when the need arises.

I am posting this on Nairaland seeking advise from Nairalanders if there are other better ways to sort out this issue. The two people that were in the shop before me were frustrated out because of PHCN bill, the woman there before i came sells frozen foods and PHCN was giving her 20,000+ as monthly bill. This formed my decision to forfeit some months rents waiting for the meter to be installed.

My Account No: 04/19/24/2505-01
Name : Racheal Fadeyibi
20 Adebayo Mokuolu Street,
Anthony Village,
Lagos.

You can post your advise here or reach me on ekomedia10@gmail.com

WisePer: Thanks Polaris for your advise, I will visit their office like you said and pray something good comes out of it.

Sincerely, I cannot keep paying 15k as Electricity bill, my residential apartment where I have an AC, three Tv sets, Fridge and other appliances, I dont spend more than 4k every month cos i use Pre-paid meter. Why will IKEDC PHCN not make available pre-paid meters to its customers.
IKEDC/PHCN are deliberately exploiting Nigerians and this need to stop,
I feel the Privatization has not brought the much needed re-form we all crave for in the system.

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I really feel for the Op and others in this debacle! Estimated Billing is and has always been a criminal way of fleecing people. You should count what is on the meter on monthly basis and issue bills accordingly. That "faulty meter" story is a blatant lie used to justify 'estimation' otherwise someone who ordered that meter in PHCN, needs to go to jail!

It appears that Nigerians are being railed into a new form of slavery, in their fatherland, by their own people in the 21st century.
Nigeria is not the only country in the world where electricity is being generated but we are unfortunate in the sense that the "regulators" and the "suppliers/providers" they are supposed to regulate ...and the government itself, have morphed into a single unit. Without being dramatic, we know that every humanbeing has a criminal tendency but they are only put into check by "laws and attached punishments".

Just imagine the situation we have now whereby our national assets like NEPA were privatized and sold cheaply to our previous and current leaders (using fronts), these same leaders (who are now owners) appoint Regulators who are under their bidding, to monitor their own company which they set up to fleece Nigerians?

For example, only in Nigeria can a DISCO not provide you electricity for a whole year and you are still charged and liable for #9,000 FIXED CHARGE (#750 FOR EVERY MONTH OF THAT YEAR). Now imagine in Lagos for example, if five million households have to pay 9,000 x 5,000,000?
Which implies the owner of each DISCO (The Babangidas, Abubakars, Madame Dame Jonathans , e.t.c, just go back and see the list of the owners of these DISCOS!) can rake in 45Billion Naira every year, in Lagos alone without lifting a finger! Fixed charge should/are always a percentage (say 5% ) of amount due in reasonable countries but in Nigeria, it has gradually got to around 50% (half) of the average household monthly bill!
Now, if such DISCO does decide to provide you with epileptic power, as most does, aside from the #45Billion "guaranteed income" it makes yearly, l dont know if you have noticed how the TARIFF (Unit charge of electricity) has been constantly increased from #2.50K, in the last three years or so, to #12.50K per unit, the last increase being in April this year? Thus, a five-fold increase in about three years!
Now, where in the world does "business" make such astronomical increase in revenue on the back of the populace, for something so important, so necessary and so unavoidable like electricity? Only in Nigeria, because these crooks want more and more money.

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WisePer: Brief Intro:
I and my wife run a Photo Studio which opened for business at Anthony Village Lagos in March 2014, The delay was partly because of our insistence on having our power consumption metered, after waiting for many months for PHCN Ikeja Disco to supply us with a Meter as i paid for the one-room apartment in Oct. 2013.

I met PHCN Ikeja DISCO Senior Marketing Manager at Alausa Head office in August 2014, and persistently visited her office for more than twenty times before they finally installed a Digital post-paid meter to my Studio in December 2014.

PHCN marketer read my meter in March and April 2014 and stopped, when i inquired from the marketer in-charge of my street ( Adebayo Mokuolu Street, Anthony Village ) , she informed me that the batch of meters that were supplied then had Factory defect and the management asked them to place everyone that had the meter installed for on ESTIMATED CONSUMPTION. She promised that the Company will replace the faulty meter with a new one early this month( July 2014).

I was shocked to my bone marrow when my Bill for the month of May 2014 was delivered last month and I was billed fifften thousand , one hundred and seven naira, ( N15, 107), an amount I am not sure i realized from the months proceeds . I went to their Mende office to lodge my complaint and the same marketing officer wrote on a copy of my Nepa bill and promised to affect the change in the next billing.
Worth noting that I also visited IKEDC Head Office Customer care at Aluasa the same day to lodge the same complaint, they took my details and promised their engineers will call me within days to evaluate the meter and ascertain whether it is faulty or not. At the time of this post, I have not had any call from them.

The greater shock came today when the bill for June was delivered and I had fourteen Thousand four hundred and thirty nine naira ( N14, 439 ) to pay. It might interest you to know that my previous bills for March and April were below 2,000 as business is slowly picking up because we are new in the neighborhood.

I have made up my mind to write to PHCN to officially DISCONNECT me off from their supply and stop sending me their frustrating bills as I will make arrangement to source and install an INVERTER and manage it with my Gen set. With this I will be able to regulate my cost and spend on Fuel only when the need arises.

I am posting this on Nairaland seeking advise from Nairalanders if there are other better ways to sort out this issue. The two people that were in the shop before me were frustrated out because of PHCN bill, the woman there before i came sells frozen foods and PHCN was giving her 20,000+ as monthly bill. This formed my decision to forfeit some months rents waiting for the meter to be installed.

My Account No: 04/19/24/2505-01
Name : Racheal Fadeyibi
20 Adebayo Mokuolu Street,
Anthony Village,
Lagos.

You can post your advise here or reach me on ekomedia10@gmail.com

capip120: na today? this guyz are so clueless and dumb that they just give you any bill to pay. me wey they pay 2,000 before all of a sudden my bill reach 33,000 this happened as a result of some many unreflected months of payment without anything to show for, even when I went to complain about this they just write one jargon on your bill and tell you d next one will reflect this went on for so many months and I gave up! not to mention the four months wey them come remove transformer say e Get problem one still these guy's were still bringing bills!na who wan pay? na monkey? the one that made me want to destroy their office is about five days ago precisely last week I went to pay my bill with my 2,000 as I was about entering I met a lady before the door she sat on a chair resting her hands on a table, she called my and told me to bring my bill so she could sign I brought it to her she saw 33, 000 and asked me how much I wanted to pay? I told 2,000 she said it ain't possible dat am supposed to pay more. with excessive temerity I looked at her and said look woman! this happened as a result of gross misconduct and mismanagement of dis office I went on to explain how it all started I was'nt even finished she started begging me to stop, I looked at her once again with tenacity, said my prayers and left.

mbakweich: God bless u @op, I am facing similar problem from dat ikeja district too. I live in a room @ ogba, but these bastereds keep giving me bills of about 10000 naira monthly with the bills rising like an arithmetic progression with a common difference of 3000 naira. I have written dozens of letter but still no improvement. I have discided to ignore their bills and keep paying a constant amount of 4000 whether light dey or not. May electric shock dem anyday they attempt to disconnect my line. In all I pray for thunder to fire those their greedy ogas at the top for bringing pains to ppl instead of comfort.

asuustrike1:
do they do. load shedding in Eku? for abraka na just yesterday light come and it went off this morning by 5a.m.who are you guys shedding load with and what of the sapele line that is under construction

darne: [size=32pt]AND I JUST COMPLAINED ABOUT THE SAME THING YESTERDAY, ALONE AT HOME,.....I THINK ITS HIGH TIME WE DO did SOMETHING ON THIS, WE DONT GET POWER SUPPLY, BUT WE RECEIVE BILLS WITH OUTRAGEOUS AMOUNTS/CHARGES ON THEM,.. WHAT REALLY IS GOING ON WITH PHCN AND THEIR NEW AND ADVANCED WAY OF DEFRAUDING COMMON NIGERIANS ?


IKEDC/PHCN WE NEED AN ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS !!!! [/size]

experimentist: Generate your own power by yourself... A new tech I develop.. Very soon PHCN will die. My new method of power generation will take over the power industry and I'll be exporting electricity to Ghana, Congo, Angola even SA.. Jx relax I'm still working on it.. Procedures: get two big drums filled with charcoals, pour 5 litre of fuel inside. Get some chemicals and..... To be continued.. I will av to open a thread on dis

lastpage: Nigerians need to understand that we are under siege and these leeches will not stop until they suck the life out of all of us, in their penchant to be individually richer than the world bank! Dont ask me what they do with the money. I am not politically affiliated but l can tell you that while you'all fight and support one party over another, the criminals in these parties don't give a hoot about the populace, all they care about is the money they make from our poor sweat and if we continue to be stupid as we have been, there will be no end to this punishment and infliction of pain.
Instead, like the Op mentioned, they will drive a "honest man" to look for dishonest ways of surviving but then, they would also be the ones to put you behind bars (if not shot by their silly Police) for violating the law ... laws which they themselves violate with impunity and without any consequence!
I see a lot of Nigerians just dying under the weight of "trying to survive on a daily basis" when they could have channeled half of that energy into ensuring that we have a good and responsible government that cares about the people.

Boko Haram is not even our greatest threat in Nigeria (those ones are just deranged, religious fanatics); our greatest problem are our leaders (past and present) who have turned us into ATM machines for their unending greed, inhuman oppression and ostentatious life-style.
These band of vipers will not let-go peacefully, they are used to looting, oppressing and sucking the blood of ordinary hardworking Nigerians, with impunity and the only language they understand is "forceful protest". One writer said "Fear is the key that unlocks the pocket of the rich oppressors".

Think about it. In every country that have turned around to cater for its citizens, it is "the fear of mass revolt" that made their leaders listen to the citizens, how do you think Nigeria's case, a country whose leaders are noted for their "legendary greed", can be different.
Nigerians must wise-up or continue to suffer the consequence, till death but l know that "One day, when the level of poverty becomes truly unbearable.... (remember the second republic Senator/Minister, Umaru Dikko of NPN in those days, who said he is yet to see Nigerians eating from the dustbins?), ....that is when Nigerians whose life has really lost all meaning, will rise-up and say "Enough is Enough, better to die with dignity than to live in abject poverty".

For now, we ain't see nothing yet, let the suffering be further ramped-up. We are still lucky we have other countries (whose citizens fought their battle, to emancipate themselves), to run to. Those doors are closing by the day.
I WEEP FOR MY COUNTRY.


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lagos...suffering and smiling
the lite z not even steady. .where am currently based..we njoy 22 hours steady supply err day with just 300naira per apartment and 2k per compound in a month.
Last bullet: cobwebs full my house for lag.