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I agree with you.

OlujobaSamuel:
This is Gombe bro, not Abuja, Lagos or any major city, few churches will have those heavy equipment you are referring to.
According to the report, it seems the disco want to place them on Band A, that's why there is disagreement, they should give them the metre and place them on the bands enjoyed by the respective community they belonged to.

The answer is simple: prosecute those who refuse to pay. (Read Ecclesiastes 8:11)

The part I don't agree with

"does not discriminate among customers"

eh eh.

Then explain what band A, B, C, D, E is all about.

Incognito403:
Muslims do not support one another on injustice. We know it's cross people that do "touch not my annointed".

you must be a very fat liar....lol

Ahmed0336:
If they don't want pre paid meters why not bill them what would forced them to request for pre paid themselves?
Make sure for every estimated bill you serve them, they must pay 75% of it or get disconnected.
Na madness dey cure madness.

I don't support this. They should be forced to get prepaid meter or stop using light.
They know if it is the estimated bill, they will pay way less than they use, they will easily accumulate their electricity bill by always joining head with rogue electricity staff, so they should be on that prepaid, just like everyone else

Ahmed0336:
If they don't want pre paid meters why not bill them what would forced them to request for pre paid themselves?
Make sure for every estimated bill you serve them, they must pay 75% of it or get disconnected.
Na madness dey cure madness.

They bill them and they won't pay..it's as simple as that...they would only pay what they can afford...

Nigerian system is never designed to work cos of the embedded corruption...you can't be looting and expect others to play by the rules...it's not possible...

nairalanda1:
Lol.

You see why our power companies cannot raise money? When church and mosque are resisting being metered ?

People should realize that we don't have power because we don't want to pay to get good enough power. The churches and mosques and grinding centers are even setting a bad example for everyone to follow

I mean if your church and mosque is stealing power , how are they gonna teach that stealing is bad? If you can't condemm small sin...

Nigeria has a massive power theft problem. And a lot of people who think they are entitled to free electric power. That's why our discos and gencos cannot raise the money they need to improve power supply. It even affects the transmission company of Nigeria because it is dependent on funds raised from discos and gencos.

You made valid points and they are not the only ones, even some, most top government officials don't pay for heavy electricity supply they use - it's either it's subscribed by the government or discos face the expenses. They keep killing horse

ceejay80s:
Get ur own prepaid meter
My dad uses 5k for 3months in his 5 bedroom flat in his house,
Someone is using hot plate to cook in that ur compound, it might not be only one person sef,
Do ur finding u will discover the truth,

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Ask ur dad to tell u d truth 5k for 3 months for 5Bed 😳

Nepa don help ur papa bypass too .

Ask him very well to tell u d truth

Iamsane:
According to him, churches and mosques are categorised as high-demand customers due to the heavy electrical load required during worship activities.

“Worship centres consume significant power because of their load. It is only fair that our Imams and Pastors encourage the installation of prepaid meters so that actual consumption can be properly determined,” he added.

I don't know about Churches. But the statement above by the Jos disco spokesperson is a big lie concerning the mosque. Is a mosque a factory? How is a mosque a high demanding customer. 😆

Discos are full of lies.

You'd be surprised that these churches and mosques decided to be using fuel/diesel generator or small solar generator.

And na wetin dey pain the discos be that...

OlujobaSamuel:
This is Gombe bro, not Abuja, Lagos or any major city, few churches will have those heavy equipment you are referring to.
According to the report, it seems the disco want to place them on Band A, that's why there is disagreement, they should give them the metre and place them on the bands enjoyed by the respective community they belonged to.

This one obviously hasn't travelled well.

Floky215:
They bill them and they won't pay..it's as simple as that...they would only pay what they can afford...

Nigerian system is never designed to work cos of the embedded corruption...you can't be looting and expect others to play by the rules...it's not possible...

Then they should remove them from the pile and leave the case for them to use generator ..

because average Nigeria do talk about overseas that they have constant electricity road this and that but they failed to understand that they are not 🆓

but here in naija we want all to be 🆓 before we can say d government is good 😊

Now look at what u said here they dey don't need to pay because d government loots 🤔

So if they stop supplying electricity let's see who will suffer d most it it's d citizens that refuse to pay or the government that are millionaires already..

Incognito403:
Muslims do not support one another on injustice. We know it's cross people that do "touch not my annointed".

sure ur ppl are law abiding coz of the 60 virgins waiting for you in heaven

Wetpussy90:
sure ur ppl are law abiding coz of the 60 virgins waiting for you in heaven

72 actually. Thank you.

AfDapone:
The part I don't agree with

"does not discriminate among customers"

eh eh.

Then explain what band A, B, C, D, E is all about.

I believe u are learned so stop asking an illiteracy or ignorancy question..

The difference in band is the difference rate of power supply to a particular area as expected..

So logically I should understand one will pay more than the other band due to d more light u have d more u consume ur units faster and more often u buy more unit....

That's a simple terms

ceejay80s:
Oga leave talk
Yes it's true a lot owe, what about those that don't owe, how many hrs of electricity do they get in a day, I don't owe kobo but u will still not see light for even 2days , is it not same technique they use that the consumers are using for them too?

Consider that most nigerians do not pay cost reflective tarrifs, which means that the sector cannot make the profits needed to give you light for 24 hours a day, and even attract investment, because many investors won't see ROI.

When the majority don't pay or underpay for a service, it is everyone, including the minority (like you ) that suffer am.

lastmessenger:
what about the ones that they collect for overestimated billing?

Overestimated billing happens because the majority do not pay or underpay...like the churches and mosques seen above.

So, the discos in essence rip off the consumers who do pay. It is the only way they can make some money. Attempts to even enforce collection on people who underpay, bypass their meters, et al leads to violence against disco workers...so here we are.

Price controls always causes jagga jagga economics.

inoki247:
Go to those Alfa and Pastors house and see them even bypassing there prepaid meter at home....



You be like what're this people preaching then....

They are typical Nigerians. 60% of metered Nigerians bypass their meters.

Incognito403:
We know it's churches that will be the most on the list.

The useless media house even put mosque before church because it's negative news.

Can our media houses not be fair for once? Tell them to publish the names of culprits if they're being honest.

Why don't many churches pay their light bills? Must we excuse evil in christianity because 'muslems'?

PLEASE WE NEED THOSE METERS IN ISU3 MY LGA OF ORIGIN

U09ce:
It's misleading to claim that worship centres are high demand units. I'm pretty sure most mosques consume less power compared to residential homes. Out of 24 hours, power is used for less than 5 hours. Also, most have migrated to hybrid solar power. Thus, sometimes they don't even get to use NEPA for the whole due to its epileptic nature. The disco should dive deeper and evaluate where the revenue bleeding is coming from.

LOL..so mosque should not pay for the power they consume?

As one muslim once said on this site, religion in nigeria no be scam, na Nigerians be scam. Islam, (I no be muslim) wey dey preach against stealing...this one dey endorse stealing because 'religion'

OlujobaSamuel:
This is Gombe bro, not Abuja, Lagos or any major city, few churches will have those heavy equipment you are referring to.
According to the report, it seems the disco want to place them on Band A, that's why there is disagreement, they should give them the metre and place them on the bands enjoyed by the respective community they belonged to.

And why won't discos place them on band A , when most Nigerians do not even pay for the electricity they use, band A people included.

Discos are losing money well well.

Lanretoye:
See the people that tinubu want to tax

When the North says they will not pay tax you think that they are joking. Do you think they will pay tax from their businesses? Those that understand the North speak as a pragmatic not those Tinubu supporters that everything is politics and making mouth.
Let them bring metres to the South, it's needed here.

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/gombe-mosques-churches-resist-prepaid-billing-jos-discos

Cheating centres , God will provide they said but they're running away from paying bills from what their gods provided .

I don't even blame them for rejecting metering because apart from high cost of units, the meter configuration is hell.

U09ce:
It's misleading to claim that worship centres are high demand units. I'm pretty sure most mosques consume less power compared to residential homes. Out of 24 hours, power is used for less than 5 hours. Also, most have migrated to hybrid solar power. Thus, sometimes they don't even get to use NEPA for the whole due to its epileptic nature. The disco should dive deeper and evaluate where the revenue bleeding is coming from.

....abi..you are right ..churches do not operate 24 hours and do not hold church service everyday ...churches operate twice a week and use at least 6 hours in their church service.. many even use generator , fuel, diesel to run their church services due to lack of power supply...so church do not operate 24 hours every day..so he should not say church consume a lot of power...

Lanretoye:
See the people that tinubu want to tax

Tax poverty you mean?

muyico:
Honour house of God! Tho is private sector!
Why una no start the prepaid from Kano State or Sokoto! These people seems to be bias

Pre-Paid metre is better than estimated bills
We spent money to buy in our area we didn't get Free metre.

You would spend more than 150K to get it and as well pay for wiring the metre

If grinding machines are rejecting the development because of their heavy power consuming what about Churches and mosques that only consume light off and on?
For churches, it is only on Sundays they get majority of their instruments in used...and I don't still understand why mosques are rejecting because that is the best thing for them to do inasmuch they don't consume much light(Mosques only make use of microphones and speakers, except those ones that make use of borehole water)

Incognito403:
We know it's churches that will be the most on the list.

The useless media house even put mosque before church because it's negative news.

Can our media houses not be fair for once? Tell them to publish the names of culprits if they're being honest.

How many churches are in Gombe?

This is the real reason why they're refusing.
How can you just claim churches and mosques are high demand locations? Have you seen a typical church in Gombe? How many days in a week do they operate?
You want to force them on Band A after installation of Prepaid meter.They saw through the charade and resisted the impending exploitation.
Go and find out where the leak is coming from and stop chasing shadows.

Iamsane:
According to him, churches and mosques are categorised as high-demand customers due to the heavy electrical load required during worship activities.

“Worship centres consume significant power because of their load. It is only fair that our Imams and Pastors encourage the installation of prepaid meters so that actual consumption can be properly determined,” he added.

I don't know about Churches. But the statement above by the Jos disco spokesperson is a big lie concerning the mosque. Is a mosque a factory? How is a mosque a high demanding customer. 😆

If they aren't high demand why are the mosques resisting prepared? Would it not be a good thing for them to use prepaid and pay lower since they are not high consumer? You are saying the mosques are happy to pay more via estimated billing since they aren't high consumers but I'm sure the distribution company sends post paid bill to them as high consumer. You guys should think through before asserting yourself.

correctyourself:
Pre-Paid metre is better than estimated bills
We spent money to buy in our area we didn't get Free metre.

You would spend more than 150K to get it and as well pay for wiring the metre

seems likes
U don't read this post! If truly it pay, why jos discos counting loss??
Which mean they making bountiful profits from prepaid meter! Seem like u re one of they re staff