Quakertellicus1:


And they can increase the price of the meter tokens too....so it won't matter either way.

engrkenny:
increase the price of what? I really said you must be an insider

Icecomrade:



This government is arbitrary. The dead brain leaders are above any law. Even if the court gives an order stopping increase of Tariff, I don't see this underfed Daura Animal compel his agencies to obey.

Nonsense

engrkenny:
My people have a common saying that a man who is of the habit of asking questions rarely misses his way. Last month the news was all over the internet that the Nigerian Senate ordered that the planned 40% increase in power tariff by NERC be reversed. My first question is; did the senate finally accede to the NERC's decision to hike the tariff? was the senate only making a suggestion? or does FG have the power to overrule the senate's directive for the increase to be reversed? I'm lost because the bill i just received from Enugu Disco (EEDC) just reflected the tariff increase as well as the ever sardonic unmetered fixed phantom consumption. The bills (Images attached below) shows a 40% increase from what i received last month. Please can someone help counsel me?

And that's not to mention that the energy consumption for my office space in a non-urban area had gradually increased from 150units to 300units over the past couple of months. How the estimated consumption is even calculated is "secret society code" because no one seems to know the criteria for estimating the power consumption for a particular building. I have complained without any meaningful solution from the local EEDC office here.

And this is not all, the bill you are seeing below is bill for energy "Unused", yes, you read right. I hardly had power for up to 2 hours a day for the entirety of last month, sometimes there were outages for 2-3days at a stretch. The last time i tried to take this up with the local marketer here, he proudly told me that they were instructed to allot bills to customers based on the value of energy imported, whether the energy got to us or not, which begs the question where in the world do consumers pay for goods/services that ended up with the manufacturer/wholesaler? I thought basic economics is that one pays for satisfaction derived from the services rendered?

All the talks about getting meters whether prepaid or postpaid has forever being mere lip service, which by the way i think is a deliberate action by these people to keep extorting us. Judging by how much power i got last month my bill for the month shouldn't have being up to 200naira even at the current tariff.

I really don't know how to deal with this. This whole thing is just very frustrating, I may not understand the processes and how these things go, but i sure know to understand if someone explains to me. I therefore beckon on those who do to weigh in, lemme actually understand what is going on.

ladyF:

as in ehnn, the guy really fail for this one. You no wan upload that pishure abi, make I feed my eye na

Quakertellicus1:


No,just amused that Nigerians expected things to remain the same once power was privatised.

Government sold off PHCN in 2014., gave them scanty money, and told them to''improve power supply''

Where do you think they would get the money from?We the customers.

And I have nothing to do with power supply company,and currently suffer from no light too.

Maybe we should beg PMB to take over the DISCOS again.

redcap:



The DISCOS you're here defending as if ur live depends on it, ain't they supposed to be investor,how exactly have they ok invested.Sometimes I wonder why peo pro le dont reason before they comment.

Favolly:

Actually, the capital letter D means that his meter is faulty and therefore cannot be read and so his bill is being fully estimated every month.

If you look at the 2 bills very well, you'll notice that the Last Actual Reading (LAR) for both January and February are the same. And the LAR date was not shown in the bill. That means that the last time his meter was actually read was when it was fully functioning, which was God knows when. Also, notice that there was no Present Actual Reading (PAR) for both January and February. Normally, LAR minus PAR equals your energy consumption for the period. So, it is obvious that the 300 figure they put as his consumption was estimated.

OP needs to take it up with the relevant EEDC officials so that his meter can be repaired else he will keep paying for what he didn't use

Also, i can see that the fixed charge was only applied on his January bill. It was scrapped in February and i can't see it on his February bill.

cc engrkenny

Quakertellicus1:


When a businessman invests in a project...he does so with every expectation of making a profit.

That's how you do business.

DISCOS have to fix up a lot of things before we can even get some good power supply. Where do you expect them to get the cash? Government won't give it to them.

You people should have told Govt back in 2014 that we should not privatse NEPA. But no....you were so happy to see PHCN gone. Now...you expect DISCOS to give you light at their expense. ?

It is like you buying shirts for N1000 per shirt, and selling it at N200 ...with a loss of N800 per shirt. You want the DISCOS to do the same.? And then you would grumble when things fall apart.

Good evening. Reality is a harsh dish.


POSER for you....when the GSM companies first came into Nigeria...where do you think they got the money to give you all them GSM services.? From selling SIM cards at N5000 and above. It certainly was not from government.

I ain't defending the Discos.Just telling you that thanks to privatization, the money needed for fixing our power is gonna come from our pockets.

Quakertellicus1:


When a businessman invests in a project...he does so with every expectation of making a profit.

That's how you do business.

DISCOS have to fix up a lot of things before we can even get some good power supply. Where do you expect them to get the cash? Government won't give it to them.

You people should have told Govt back in 2014 that we should not privatse NEPA. But no....you were so happy to see PHCN gone. Now...you expect DISCOS to give you light at their expense. ?

It is like you buying shirts for N1000 per shirt, and selling it at N200 ...with a loss of N800 per shirt. You want the DISCOS to do the same.? And then you would grumble when things fall apart.

Good evening. Reality is a harsh dish.


POSER for you....when the GSM companies first came into Nigeria...where do you think they got the money to give you all them GSM services.? From selling SIM cards at N5000 and above. It certainly was not from government.

I ain't defending the Discos.Just telling you that thanks to privatization, the money needed for fixing our power is gonna come from our pockets.

seyilabi:
I believe senate doesn't have the power to stop the increment but can only advised because NERC is also backed by law that established them and this issue of increment has been approved by the 7th assembly and passed by law and that was why Fashola was saying his hand are tied. only court of law or FG can reserve it.
justmyview

3kay945:


Ride on , call him whatever names seem fits. But he is still your president.

Quakertellicus1:


No,just amused that Nigerians expected things to remain the same once power was privatised.

Government sold off PHCN in 2014., gave them scanty money, and told them to''improve power supply''

Where do you think they would get the money from?We the customers.

And I have nothing to do with power supply company,and currently suffer from no light too.

Maybe we should beg PMB to take over the DISCOS again.

Quakertellicus1:


When a businessman invests in a project...he does so with every expectation of making a profit.

That's how you do business.

DISCOS have to fix up a lot of things before we can even get some good power supply. Where do you expect them to get the cash? Government won't give it to them.

You people should have told Govt back in 2014 that we should not privatse NEPA. But no....you were so happy to see PHCN gone. Now...you expect DISCOS to give you light at their expense. ?

It is like you buying shirts for N1000 per shirt, and selling it at N200 ...with a loss of N800 per shirt. You want the DISCOS to do the same.? And then you would grumble when things fall apart.

Good evening. Reality is a harsh dish.


POSER for you....when the GSM companies first came into Nigeria...where do you think they got the money to give you all them GSM services.? From selling SIM cards at N5000 and above. It certainly was not from government.

I ain't defending the Discos.Just telling you that thanks to privatization, the money needed for fixing our power is gonna come from our pockets.

Flexherbal:
The national assembly is like the wind. It is always unstable.

9jatatafo:


Thanks for the info. Could you believe that the man who always come read my meter said a faulty meter cannot be repaired and I said to him that is a big lie. Normally when I am going to work or out, I usually put the meter on neutral via my change-over, so when the market came to check the reading while inward away, she wrote MF (mal-functioning Meter) against my reading. I got almost 7k that month as bill then I went to their office to complain. So I asked the man that how donyou expect my meter to be reading when there is no load on it? He said at least I should always put a bulb on for the meter to be running. I said no that I can't because if I am away and there is power surge and the unthinkable should happen, what will the electricity company do? He laughed. Then when I got home, I was always reading the meter 2 twice a week and take a snap shot of the reading for a month. I went to their office again and should the person in charge that was how my bill came down. Also I have instructed anyone at home that if the meter man comes for reading that they too should the reading with him and record it down. No story and it's working

ladyF:
Help me ask them o, this Fashola sef, he should better know what he's doing. The new tariff is freaking insane. The fixed charge of N750 per month is even better than this rubbish he did, and we go still use money buy fuel at N130 per liter to power gen. We must put an end to this exploitation.

It's [size=15pt]LadyF[/size] again

lexyclasy:
LadyF the new hike is very much alive in PHED when i got there to pay my bill....i saw a leaflet " NO MORE FIXED CHARGE" i was with my normal N1,750 fixed charge included to get 63units that usually serve me for 3weeks but on 4th march since i saw the leaflet i decided to use the whole money to buy energy what i got with N1,750 without fixed charge is 66.8unit before it was N1,000 that i got 63units but now without fixed charge N1,750 i got 66.8units so the fixed charge is very much alive Fashola is a joker and NASS is a big flop this is the worst govt of impunity i have ever seen....God will help us

seyilabi:
I believe senate doesn't have the power to stop the increment but can only advised because NERC is also backed by law that established them and this issue of increment has been approved by the 7th assembly and passed by law and that was why Fashola was saying his hand are tied. only court of law or FG can reserve it.
justmyview

Nbote:
People seem to have accepted the current harsh conditions in gud faith. Imagine having to pay outrageous fees for non existent power in d name of estimated billing. I think dey jus look at d location of the building and jus fix a rate. My bill over the past couple of months has increased from 5500 to 9800 dis last month and it's even more annoying considering d supply in d last couple of months has become really annoying.