Nevee:

Estimated billing is not illegal. In fact, it is recommended and approved by the sector's regulatory body. But Government wouldn't tell you that, they want everyone to keep using the DISCOs as a shield for their gross in incompetence. If it were illegal, why haven't they penalized any DISCO for it? Government should come out and tell us the truth, we are tired of the blame-games.

NaijaRoyalty:
Everybody dodging from his responsibility in this Buhari governement .

You wonder why the country is in such a sorry state .

Aolconsult:

You've displayed little understanding of the power sector.

In 2013 precisely 1st November, President Goodluck Jonathan privatized the Gencos and Discos, then retained only Transmission Company of Nigeria.

From 2013 to May, 2015 the Gencos and Discos realized that they have no idea of power Generation and Distribution, but ran into debts over poor management.

Fashola became the Minister and the Gencos and Discos cried for intervention. Buhari approved a refund of what they paid to Government under Jonathan to be given to them as loan/support. Despite that, they're still under performing.

Infact government has refunded their monies back

How's this the problem of Buhari or this administration? Why not call Jonathan that privatized and handed over power sector to people who have no idea of how stuff works?

oz4real83:
gbajabiamila was proposing a bill criminalising estimated bill,the power minister made the above statement during that time. Estimated billing is criminal but there is no punishment for it in our constitution.

oz4real83:
As long as fashola continue to be the power minister,the illegal estimated billing will continue because according to him ''criminalising estimated billing will erode the gain in the power sector and will discourage investments in the power sector''. If the person at the helm of affairs at the ministry of power has this mindset,there is no hope of having pre-paid meters.

Nevee:
If only NERC and the government would tell the truth to the public about the mess they created in the power sector that the DISCOs are now trying to clean up. It's really not a good time most of the DISCOs, bad business something . No wonder most of them are saying they are not doing again and that they are ready to collect their money back even if it is at a discount.

If metering was that easy, why didn't government meter everyone when they still had major control before privatization? Scam government!

Nevee:
If only NERC and the government would tell the truth to the public about the mess they created in the power sector that the DISCOs are now trying to clean up. It's really not a good time most of the DISCOs, bad business something . No wonder most of them are saying they are not doing again and that they are ready to collect their money back even if it is at a discount.

If metering was that easy, why didn't government meter everyone when they still had major control before privatization? Scam government!

Housing:


After Discos said it will took over 5 more years to close the metering gap. The Discos source and licensed 121 reputable firms capable of providing meters. It is left to the Discos to and a metering Services Agreement with those firm and specify the way the energy consumers are to be metered. The said meter will be paid through amortization for a period of ten years. As the cost of the meter and metering services would have bee factored into the tariff rate for the prepaid meters. So invariably it is still the Discos that will provide meters.

olaolaking:
The government that did the privatization did a bad job.
Atiku and Co. Many things were ignore

Nevee:

Estimated billing is not illegal. In fact, it is recommended and approved by the sector's regulatory body. But Government wouldn't tell you that, they want everyone to keep using the DISCOs as a shield for their gross in incompetence. If it were illegal, why haven't they penalized any DISCO for it? Government should come out and tell us the truth, we are tired of the blame-games.

Nevee:

Lol I appreciate your reply, really because I had hitherto contemplated opening a thread where we all could discuss and proffer solutions to problems of the sector. Nonetheless, let me quickly make some corrections. First I blamed the government in my post (both present and past), not only the present.

Some DISCOs in Nigeria inherited over 80 billion naira in debt accumulated by who? And when you assess these debt profiles today, they have been greatly reduced. You may also wish that a major part of the debts are being owed by Government ministries, departments and agencies who believe they shouldn't be paying electricity bills and till this very moment, they have not been paid and you know what? They'd let you know you can never disconnect them. Note that these bills would have been factored into their annual budget and still, they won't pay. So how have the DISCOs run into debt? Go through the NERC website, there is a modeled assumption of the performance of DISCOs over the next 10 years right from privatization that DISCOs would make a loss consistently over 10 years and we are just in the 5th year. May I ask why government itself made such assumptions for DISCOs? Have a look at the investments and tell me you would be willing to run at such loss despite such investments? How can you buy gas to produce electricity at 360 naira per dollar and at the point of selling, government pegs tariff at an assumption at 120 naira per dollar? How please? When some persons are quick to say Ghana enjoys constant power supply, I ask them to have a look at electricity tariffs in Ghana which is about double of Nigeria's before making such comparisons? But you still say DISCOs ran into debt? Lol.

Please which monies did government refund back? It seems you rely too much on the information some of these compromised and politicized media outlets feed you. Even the 100 billion naira intervention fund government promised DISCOs in the privatization contract has not been fulfilled as I type this. Not even one naira. Get your facts right sir.

Maybe companies knowledgeable about the power sector you made reference to ran from such huge rot on the power sector. But then again, how much knowledge did Adenuga had about the Telecoms sector before government gave him an operating license?

If you'd exonerate the present government from problems of the Power sector, why is it finding it had to do that which is right? To come up with practical solutions? Why?

P.S. Don't forget government still has a huge 40% Holdings and control of the DISCOs but when it comes to accepting responsibilities, them go hide face

NaijaRoyalty:
Everybody dodging from his responsibility in this Buhari governement .

You wonder why the country is in such a sorry state .

buhariguy:
[s]is that what you understand from what you posted,
you will not read before posting,

nerc said MAPs will now be in charge,
so that discos can concentrate in other core area.[/s]

freeze001:
Before we know, this will be the sole reason why APC and co failed to improve power generation and distribution. Everyone shirking their responsibilities..hmmmm

chilltoo:
Who are the Discos.. Obasanjo, Atiku and the likes, and what do u expect from such if not failure

Nevee:

Estimated billing is not illegal. In fact, it is recommended and approved by the sector's regulatory body. But Government wouldn't tell you that, they want everyone to keep using the DISCOs as a shield for their gross in incompetence. If it were illegal, why haven't they penalized any DISCO for it? Government should come out and tell us the truth, we are tired of the blame-games.

ladman:
I knew something was fishy when Discos announced there were no longer in charge of metering. MAP is just there to help the discos achieve metering all over Nigeria.

It makes more sense.

laudate:

Which MAP? Call any of those private companies producing pre-paid meters today that you want to buy one under the MAP scheme, and they would still refer you back to the Discos, claiming they cannot sell to you directly.

ladman:
We are saying the same thing. MAP ought not to sell it to you. You should get your meter from the discos.

laudate:

Do you even understand what MAP is all about? It was meant to make it easy for the end user to get the pre-paid meter, without being subjected to the delay and haphazard stress of the Discos. The original ideology behind MAP was to decentralise the deployment of prepaid meters. So why subject the end user to the delay of the Discos again, if MAP is truly functional?