Same story since privatisation

They should please.

How can they be billing consumers without providing power.

For this month, there has not been power supply. At the end, they will still bring bill. Thieves!

Paraman:


https://punchng.com/outages-fg-plans-sanctions-for-non-performing-discos/?amp

Never seen a disco perform woefully like Bedc these guy's are criminals, they give light to only 33 line while the rest of the people in Delta state languish in darkness and our governor Mr sheriff is sincerely doing nothing about it.

Winning123:


As you have commented so shall it be to you (shame, you will be small etc). This is what the Word of God says not me.

Oh just shut up.

I am so ashamed of this country. There is no particular thing that was achieved by any government that is standard. For so many years we are still lamenting about electricity. I think there are forces of darkness behind having stable electricity in Nigeria

The government is not sanctioning anybody. They all know what they are doing. The solution is simple, give every household a prepaid metre and the government can go and sleep over electricity issue but they won't do that.

nairalanda1:


NOt just government agencies, anyone stealing power , poor or rich, anyone not paying for power, should be cut off.

We are suffering because we do not pay the appropriate prices for power. Meanwhile Ghana and Ivory coast have 24 hour power, and pay for power over twice what we pay per kwh. No wonder they have light.

We have the resources for it to be cheap. After all we were selling power to neighboring countries.

What we need is to cut off people that are not paying Or else, the few that are paying will end up carrying those that don’t pay

SenecaTheYonger:


We have the resources for it to be cheap. After all we were selling power to neighboring countries.

What we need is to cut off people that are not paying Or else, the few that are paying will end up carrying those that don’t pay

We don't have the resources to make it cheap. Not when our debt servicing is eating revenue, and all we got is being chopped by debt.

Plus, why should government bring in price controls for any business? Doing that means that the thing gets wrecked.

Eedc should be the first to be sanctioned. They are fleecing their customers like hell. People can barely boast of an hour's supply and they come with their outrageous bills.

nairalanda1:


We don't have the resources to make it cheap. Not when our debt servicing is eating revenue, and all we got is being chopped by debt.

Plus, why should government bring in price controls for any business? Doing that means that the thing gets wrecked.

Where did I ask for price control?

Waht i said is "What we need is to cut off people that are not paying Or else, the few that are paying will end up carrying those that don’t pay "

SenecaTheYonger:


Where did I ask for price control?

Waht i said is "What we need is to cut off people that are not paying Or else, the few that are paying will end up carrying those that don’t pay "

Yes, I agree with you, but beyond what you said, there is the issue of price controls, which has to end. The sector has to be allowed to charge at a profit.

BEDC SHOULD BE SAMCTIONED HEAVILY!! BEDC IS A TOTAL PACKAGE OF INCOMPETENCE!!

Nice one from the fed govt.
These guys are murderers

nairalanda1:


NOt just government agencies, anyone stealing power , poor or rich, anyone not paying for power, should be cut off.

We are suffering because we do not pay the appropriate prices for power. Meanwhile Ghana and Ivory coast have 24 hour power, and pay for power over twice what we pay per kwh. No wonder they have light.

You are talking nonsense how can you steal electricity that does not exist

No electrical distribution so how can you steal any power when electricity is not stable.

Kingsnairaland:


You are talking nonsense

LOL...better clean up your language, and then we can talk. Abuse does not make you mature, it makes you look petty.

Till then, good afternoon

Sanction them, who pays for their loss if not their helpless customers.

I am one of the solution providers!

ambale:
Until una sanction IBEDC, I will not believe this news

the worst so far

COMRADES This is long overdue

Sanction is not gonna be effective as taking away the incentive to deliver poor service.

Force them to give out free meter or meter at installment so those who cannot afford the meter can pay on installment and they won't have to pay for darkness.

If you can take power for days knowing fully well you will still get paid in full, why would you want to do anything?

ezebunafo:
the worst so far

For one week, we never see light, no words from them either

Very useless disco

The worst among them must be BEDC.

Never expect light in Asaba. Okpanam road is the worst hit. It's been like that for years. Nowadays there is light for five minutes at about 12:05 am. The light goes off after the said first five minutes. It stays off for five minutes and is restored for another five minutes. It goes off again and is restored for two hours. Okpanam road experiences light only in the dead of night for not more than two hours. Everyone can confirm it easily

I hope BEDC is stripped of the license, if any, and that license handed over to a competent organisation.

Paraman:


https://punchng.com/outages-fg-plans-sanctions-for-non-performing-discos/?amp

BEDC should be santioned for putting Delta State in darkness. we are paying for darkness here

For me to believe the minister of power know what he is doing, IBEDC need to be dealt with. Very useless disco. All they know is to be distributing estimated billing without lighting the city. in my area in Ibadan, we have not use 2 hours light in year 2024

IBEDC SHOULD BE THE 1ST TO GO.

The first to be sanctioned should be that useless Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC). They are the most useless of them all.

nairalanda1:


As usual, the government is running away from the real solution.

FIrst, all the discos are not perfoming. So, government go close all of them

The real reason why the discos are not perfroming is..THEY ARE NOT CHARGING COST REFLECTIVE TARRIFS..let them charge cost reflective tarrifs. Let government agenices pay them the monies they owe discos. Let government go after power theft. Let government pay for meters.

But no, let's look good by banning 'non-perfroming discos'.

(Like a father not paying for his children's books, pencils, not feeding the kids well, and then beats them for failing at school!)

Before anyone quotes me to tell me rubbish, read the below article. It was what the experts said, not me, not anyone else.



SAUCE OF THE ABOVE


SO, who is government sanctioning?. The same companies that they do not allow to charge cost reflective tarrifs, and thus force them to run at a loss, meaning they cannot pay for improvements, and have to rip off some of their customers in the name of estimated billing just to balance the books?

I just dey laff. APC better stop all this smoke and mirrors, and allow the free market operate in the power sector.

Is it MTN or Econet that got you your phone?? Or the govt come to your abode to arrest you for using cheat codes to browse when you have not data??
So govt should keep funding their operations while they eat the returns

OlujobaSamuel:

Is it MTN or Econet that got you your phone?? Or the govt come to your abode to arrest you for using cheat codes to browse when you have not data??
So govt should keep funding their operations while they eat the returns

NO, the MTN and econet(later celtel, later Zain , now Airtel) don't have their prices set by government, so they can mae huge profits and attract investment

The power sector has a tarrif set by government that is not cost reflective, so they lose money, the subsidy government pays them does not cover their losses, so they cannot make improvements needed.

Therein is the problem

nairalanda1:


NO, the MTN and econet(later celtel, later Zain , now Airtel) don't have their prices set by government, so they can mae huge profits and attract investment

The power sector has a tarrif set by government that is not cost reflective, so they lose money, the subsidy government pays them does not cover their losses, so they cannot make improvements needed.

Therein is the problem

Says who?
The telecom industry is also having price control, that's why all service providers charge #4 for sms
That's why no call rate is below #7/min.
Kindly Google NCC price floor for telecom service providers.

OlujobaSamuel:

Says who?
The telecom industry is also having price control, that's why all service providers charge #4 for sms
That's why no call rate is below #7/min.
Kindly Google NCC price floor for telecom service providers.

If it is there, it is not below their equivalent of a cost of production, neither are they subject to price freezes, like the power companies.

Google 'cost reflective tarrifs, and the power sector'

(FIN).

High time. Their electricity distribution license should be revoked as a matter of fact, if these useless idiots can't manage it and improve it. It was shambolic privatization in the first place.