HabaHaba:

ikorodureporta:


https://www.thecable.ng/cbn-asks-banks-to-take-over-electricity-bills-collection-from-discos

frankputer:
Good one.
No more hand to hand payment.
time to eradicate estimated billing

nony43:
I used to pay in the bank before Aunty coro came I now pay in their office.

Someone should please advice me on what to do, I paid 3k instead of 2600 that i was given for last month bill, EEDC workers came and disconnected my light and took my cables in my absence.

aieromon:
Does this affect the power vending platforms such as Buypower and iRecharge?

Guyman02:


No, whatever amount you purchase from them goes into the designated account.
This should have been done long ago, imagine one DisCo owning 100 accounts and they complain that customers are not paying

sinistermind:
I see this as stupid. Ikeja Electricity already I know don't collect these money, it is transacted via agents or banks. But what happen to those agents right now. I just think this is a way to reward some elites

crossfm:
Call your marketer,his or her number should be on your bill.meanwhile to avoid this type of scenario,place your bill at a point they can see it nest time.

And don't be bordered about your balance, it will surely reflect in your nest month bill.

nony43:








The guy is not picking, I have been calling him since yst, the bill is kept were they can see it

happybrother:
I am happy on this directive. Before now the discos shortchange everybody because there was no means to track their income but now the CBN and their creditors will monitor.
Since every customer ( metered and unmetered) has a billing number, let the list of customers be forwarded to the banks for them to design a payment platform (online and offline),through this all payments will be monitored. Customers can instruct thier banks to be funding their accounts every month.
Next line of directive should be on prepaid meter (if possible sold in the open markets like done on Phones)


EEDC Will be worst hit as the rate of their sharp practice is sometimes legendary.

VCJeks:
This should not be priority.
Government should rather implement prepaid meter. CBN have just given the DISCOs the leverage to plunge Nigerians in darkness.
My neighbor living in his yet to be completed building (Few light points, No AC, no fence lights, No outside lights, No water running in the house, No water heater in Bathrooms, No freezers just a small fridge, etc) receives an estimated bill of over 50k per month. His current indebtedness is over 1M to the Disco. He still have light cos he has been consistently paying 3k per month and pays for reconnection fee of another 3k to the field guys. Under normal circumstances, this man cannot not use power of 6k per month.

Mind you,
the Transformer was bought by community contribution of 50k per house, the lines and wooden poles were put up by street contribution of 30k per house, and a new entrant to the street in addition to paying the above charges (now double of what was originally paid per house) would buy concrete pole for the street.
After doing all these, the day you connect the light, the DISCO field reps will come to cut your wire that you need to register with 20-30k and then start receiving estimated billing of 50k.

2nd hand Prepaid meter is around 150k (black market) but the evil part is the DISCOs have made it in such a way that if you buy from one state or location to another under the sane DISCO, it will not work.

This is the height of injustice, negligence and decadence in Nigeria.

The solution is simple: PROVIDE PREPAID METERS.

post=93194122:
Anything to make our darling nation move forward is all we are after.

God bless our darling President and his amiable Vive President Prof Yemi Osibanjo for all they are doing to make this once battered and looted country work again.

God bless Nigeria.

9gerian:
The discos will rather die than stop crazy estimated bills. That’s their cash cow that ensures they get paid regardless of supply, and they make good not to really supply areas where they give estimated bills much.

It’s also the reason the supply can never really improve; maybe some drama with a few steps forward, and thereafter several steps back to the status quo.

This is while the government continues to pretend it is doing something about the worsening supply problems each time.

ikorodureporta:


https://www.thecable.ng/cbn-asks-banks-to-take-over-electricity-bills-collection-from-discos

Gee64:
They BEDC Bill me 14k per month for 9 low energy light bulbs, a fan, tv, and a fridge, no borehole.
I complained severally to deaf ears.

This is my latest Bill for July:

10W20JUL118248

MY billing account number is: 0000718852

BENIN CITY ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY, BEDC YOU ARE CHEATING ON ME AND I HAVE CRIED TO YOU SEVERALLY WITHOUT YOU OFFERING ANY SOLUTION THAN TO KEEP EXPLOITING ME.