Jubilant electricity consumers trooped out in their numbers to participate in the MOJEC Mobile MAP initiative, with many applauding the pleasant surprise of being metered the same day.

The Mobile MAP team, comprising MOJEC and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) employees stormed the Oshodi Business District recently in furtherance of its mobile metering initiative.

This is a continuation of the Mobile MAP launch that started last month in Abuja, with the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC); Shomolu, Lagos with Ikeja Electric; and Sango, under the Ibadan Electric Distribution Company (IBEDC).

As early as 8am, customers under the coverage area were already at the business unit to make inquiries on how they can participate, as according to most of them, getting metered will be a solution to most of the issues they encounter with energy.

An elated consumer, Kelechi Okafor, who got metered on the spot, recounted how he and his neighbours made several failed efforts at getting prepaid meters in time past. He took time off some other important things to see for himself and is pleased that he did.
He said, “I heard about Mobile MAP and the 24 hours metering target with the assurance that the meter will be brought to my house and made up my mind to be a beneficiary before the window would close.”

He urged the team to sustain the initiative and ensure that it goes around the country because most electricity consumers were not metered presently and would want to be metered.

“More people under this business area want meters. Participating under Mobile MAP, hopefully, will solve our estimated billings problem, which is necessary especially when many have been subjected to irrational billing, even when most are not home, or travelled’’, he asserted.

Estimated billing - a situation where electricity consumers are billed a certain amount based on the calculation of the distribution company and not on the worth of energy they consume – has been the bane of energy consumers in the country as the amount billed cannot be said to be the true worth of power they consume.

To ameliorate this situation, MOJEC extended its Mobile MAP initiative to Ikeja Electric consumers in Okota, Ijesha, Festac, and environs under the Oshodi Business Unit in accordance with its resolve to take meters to more unmetered customers across the country.
The Mobile MAP is aimed at taking meters to the customers’ doorsteps as it aims at alleviating the laborious general meter acquisition processes, ranging from KYC, survey, payment to installation, by consolidating and making them achievable under 24-48 hours.

According to Ademola Ademulegun, Head of Procurement at MOJEC, Mobile MAP is also by extension a continuation of Phase 2 of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) approved ‘Meter Asset Provider (MAP)’ initiative.

Ademulegun stated that the Mobile MAP programme will assist the customers to measure what they spend on power, save them from estimated billings and it is expected to run for the next two months across the various business units of the nine discos MOJEC International currently partners.

Engr. Taofik Basanya, the Business Manager, Oshodi Business Unit said the Mobile MAP extension to the area is necessary at this moment considering the numbers of those that indicated their interest in getting metered. He said they will attend to all those that want to be metered as capturing more customers under the metering net will grow the electricity sector.

He urged the customers to visit their website if they want to leverage the Mobile MAP initiative and avoid going to third-party agents who will extort them.