Nolevel666:

Because they are not earning enough to cover their bills.
How do you expect someone earning 35k to buy prepaid card of 10k a month?
Him no go chop or pay rent?
Him no go save?
Him no go enter transport?
What if him phone screen break, him no go change am?

are those rubbish you listed suppose to be excuses to be hanky-panky?!
are they even justifiable??
If you can't afford electricity, disconnect totally!

Nigeria remains the way it is because of people like you.

Guess you're guilty of meter bypass too.

Everlastingson:


If your claim is true why then do DISCOs not want to meter people, even after paying for meter?

1. There's no money to buy meters. Discos have no lines of credit so what are they going to buy the meters with?

2. Customers bypass majority of the meters, compounding the losses

KillahPriest:
Welcome to the club. DISCOs have capacity to distribute prepaid meters to all their customers, forget about any reasonable sounding excuse they might give but it's much more lucrative making money through estimated billing without enforced consequences

90k now, single phase meter with monthly refund of 1k

TheBlueDiamond:



are those rubbish you listed suppose to be excuses to be hanky-panky?!
are they even justifiable??
If you can't afford electricity, disconnect totally!

Nigeria remains the way it is because of people like you.

Guess you're guilty of meter bypass too.

Tell me you are a fool without saying it directly

Curious345:
Something happened to day

A lady was smashed by a hit and run BRT bus.. 10metres away ,and within line of sight , the Nigerian police officers with 2 Hilux mounted a checkpoint ,collecting bribe .


They refused to help and feigned ignorance

Nigeria is a rotten place

Neoteny:


1. There's no money to buy meters. Discos have no lines of credit so what are they going to buy the meters with?

2. Customers bypass majority of the meters, compounding the losses

You say no money to buy meters but people are paying to Dicos for meters. We got our prepaid meters coz a director in the State Civil Service was involved. But I know some person who paid for over 3 years and are not metered still. Are you denying that Discos collect money from people in the name of giving them prepaid meters?
Who are you trying to deceive? You pretend you don't know what's going on. In the first place are we supposed to pay for the meters, since it remains NEPA property?

Everlastingson:


You say no money to buy meters but people are paying to Dicos for meters. We got our prepaid meters coz a director in the State Civil Service was involved. But I know some person who paid for over 3 years and are not metered still. Are you denying that Discos collect money from people in the name of giving them prepaid meters?
Who are you trying to deceive? You pretend you don't know what's going on. In the first place are we supposed to pay for the meters, since it remains NEPA property?

Meters are sold under the Meter Asset Provider scheme. The money does not go to the Discos, it goes to the MAP vendors who may or may not have meter stocks. Also, if not for recently, meter prices were set by the industry regulator.

So your money was not held up by the disco nor was the disco the party responsible for installing the meter.

Scamburster:

I bought even #200 token experiments using opay.

How did you do that?

Mrfeel:
How did you do that?

You have to ignore the options listed by opay and input your desired figure.
Select reply and input any amount.

jmoore:

You have to ignore the options listed by opay and input your desired figure.

Select reply and input any amount.

But the pay button doesn't turn green when the figure is below the listed amount

Mrfeel:

But the pay button doesn't turn green when the figure is below the listed amount

Have you tried via USSD?

jmoore:

Have you tried via USSD?

No ,but I will try

Nolevel666:


Tell me you are a fool without saying it directly

even the morally bankrupt, the morally decadent, stupendous ignoramuses, fraudsters, dimwits, silly billies e.t.c. thinks they are wise and smart in their ways, buhh perceives the truly wise, morally upright and prudents as fools, lol!

Continue oh!

Meter wey person install for him house, another person will now come and remove it!
Dis is serious!

Mrexcell:




People that steal meters from where they are installed they are very common here in warri.

Alright.

So like dis now, prepaid aint on your mind?

Otamendi99:


Ppm is only good wen u don have much energy consuming appliances. But if u run ACs etc. Estimated is 4 u

Okay.
Tankz so much.

Everlastingson:


There's a new digital postpaid meter that NEPA gives to people now. That's what I meant when I say those on postpaid meter. Then there are those ( the majority) who still use the old black analogue meter. This second group is what I meant by those " who don't have meter". Though NEPA applies estimated billing to both as they don't read the meter . If NEPA uses the meter reading they can't practice their estimated billing fraud. Still there are some who have none of the above types of meter, no meter at all.

Love800:
Alright.

So like dis now, prepaid aint on your mind?

YES

AnambraPikinSel:



But your ancestors want to die in Lagos

Because your ancestors are selling off their lands cheap and living under the bridge

Don't you think if the woman in question had been metered there will be no issue of energy theft or passing it to others.
It remains that all should be provided METERS is the way to avoid theft and other confusion

Hakeem66:
I don't think so. Many will be consuming more than the estimated bill given to them. Once there's a constant power supply, metering everyone will be to the advantage of the discos.

One woman operating a restaurant with two deep freezers has been paying her electricity bill up to date, but the NEPA officials later decided to conduct a proper investigation. They discovered that she's operating a cold room with 10 giant deep freezers inside the building and using the restaurant as a cover-up.

If you bill her 60k a month, she will gladly pay because she knows she is cheating them.

There are many others like her in different parts of the country. Some have mini factories in their residential apartments but still pay residential house electricity bill.

These are people making life difficult for those on estimated bill. They consume electricity as factories but pay as residential. The other energy consumed would then be shared to the estimated customers.

Nigerians can be dubious; we don't seem to want a working society. We always want to cheat, which is why many are suffering for the sins of a few. Energy theft is rampant in this country, and I pity those on estimated bills in areas with an epileptic power supply.

Why can NERC simply allow individuals but these meters themselves?
They tried customers paying to DISCOs, it failed.
They tried MAP or appointed suppliers, it failed...

Neoteny:


Meters are sold under the Meter Asset Provider scheme. The money does not go to the Discos, it goes to the MAP vendors who may or may not have meter stocks. Also, if not for recently, meter prices were set by the industry regulator.

So your money was not held up by the disco nor was the disco the party responsible for installing the meter.

Thanks so much.

Otamendi99:

YES

TheBlueDiamond:



even the morally bankrupt, the morally decadent, stupendous ignoramuses, fraudsters, dimwits, silly billies e.t.c. thinks they are wise and smart in their ways, buhh perceives the truly wise, morally upright and prudents as fools, lol!

Continue oh!

You said the things i listed out that the common citizen ought to be able to afford were rubbish.
I’m still waiting for your own list let’s see who is truly foolish.

Nolevel666:


You said the things i listed out that the common citizen ought to be able to afford were rubbish.
I’m still waiting for your own list let’s see who is truly foolish.

of course they ought to be able to afford them. They're basic.

buhh you citing them as excuses to perpetrate fraud and illegality presents you as a charlatan.

if you still can't see the illogicality in what you present as facts, then, your dumbness is stunning!

TheBlueDiamond:



of course they ought to be able to afford them. They're basic.

buhh you citing them as excuses to perpetrate fraud and illegality presents you as a charlatan.

if you still can't see the illogicality in what you present as facts, then, your dumbness is stunning!

Foolishness is written all over your replies.

Explain to me how a person earning 35k can even afford to get by much more pay arbitrary bills, you could not explain.

Your argument is only valid if the minimum wage is at least 150k and they refuse to pay at least 15k for bills.

Nolevel666:


Foolishness is written all over your replies.

Explain to me how a person earning 35k can even afford to get by much more pay arbitrary bills, you could not explain.

Your argument is only valid if the minimum wage is at least 150k and they refuse to pay at least 15k for bills.

so cos the minimum wage isn't 150k, it's an excusable reason for people to just bypass meter, right?!

if income isn't sustainable for easy inclusion of electricity bills, such individual should disconnect nah instead of fraudulently bypassing meter.

your confidence in approving illegality all in the name of low minimum wage is appalling.

careidon:
Why can NERC simply allow individuals but these meters themselves?
They tried customers paying to DISCOs, it failed.
They tried MAP or appointed suppliers, it failed...

Because meters, however acquired, belong to the Discos by law. Even under the MAP and CAPMI schemes, customers get refunded with energy credits so Discos end up owning the meters.

If a customer buys and keeps the meter, it then violates this provision. It's not a perfect industry, and i don't support the tight regulation, but it is what it is.

TheBlueDiamond:



so cos the minimum wage isn't 150k, it's an excusable reason for people to just bypass meter, right?!

if income isn't sustainable for easy inclusion of electricity bills, such individual should disconnect nah instead of fraudulently bypassing meter.

your confidence in approving illegality all in the name of low minimum wage is appalling.

Tell your government to do their job and people will naturally stop the bypass.

Nolevel666:

Tell your government to do their job and people will naturally stop the bypass.

inept and wishy washy conduct from the government doesn't justify chicanery from the country's citizens. It doesn't pay, infact, it births complications of undesirable consequences.

being prudent and morally upright is termed foolishness in your damned dictionary. It's not surprising afterall you're "no level", and tethered to evil "666".

okay nah.

careidon:
Why can NERC simply allow individuals but these meters themselves?
They tried customers paying to DISCOs, it failed.
They tried MAP or appointed suppliers, it failed...

They need to control every aspect.
Allowing people free access to meter purchase robs them of any control and unable to extort by estimated billings

If they tell you to wait that they don't have prepaid meters on ground...it's a lie. Don't wait on them. Follow the process and they will magically bring the prepaid meters lol

Love800:
What do you mean by do not wait on dem?

BigCowHornn:




Because your ancestors are selling off their lands cheap and living under the bridge

Yet you keep crying anytime we touch your building with our bulldozer as superior being we are to you