If you use post-paid meter they will extort money from you with estimated bills.

If you have no meter they'll extort money from you with estimated bills.

If you use pre-paid meters, until recently, they would extort money from you with their monthly fixed charges, whether or not they provided any service. If you like travel for a year, you would meet the accumulated fixed charges when you return. Even if there was no light in that area that whole period.

I was happy when fixed charges where removed from prepaid meters

But these electricity distribution companies apparently don't like that so now they are resorting to using blatant threats to get you to pay for service they are not rendering.
They can no longer cheat you with fixed charges if you use prepaid meters, so they are sending threat messages to law abiding citizens. Below is a text message Benin Electricity Distribution Company(BEDC) sent one of their customers in Benin. Light wey them no bring, them want make people they pay for am.


"Your Mtr No 04.....avg. monthly vending is less than 50 Unit(B4), which is very low considering avg. availability. Vend suitably to avoid disconnection"

At no time did we enter any agreement with them that We must consume a certain unit of electricity to continue to use this public amenity

Anybody wey know those guys, abeg, help me warn them well, well, say I dey allergic to mumu messages.

pishure

Haha. You self, why will your monthly usage be less than 50 units? Is it only phone you charge with your power supply?

Electricity would be better in this country, only when every house uses a prepaid meter.

That time if dem no bring light na both parties go suffer am. All this estimated bill na old time scam

But most people are afraid of it. People fear what they don't understand.

thesicilian:
Haha. You self, why will your monthly usage be less than 50 units? Is it only phone you charge with your power supply?

Which kind question b dat?? Na by force to use lite?? OP is trying to save and manage so whether he consumes at all or not shldnt b their business... He's paying for it so can decide to use it anyhow he likes

lol too bad

laugh wan kill me,oh Nigeria my country.
Everybody be scammer for this country,gov scamming citizens, citizens scamming their self. Abeg who be MUMU out of una.