The on-going protest against the 100% tarrif increase is a very valid protest... These DISCO,s do not care about their customers or the government that gave them the contract to enrich themselves at the expense of the suffering masses.
THE INCREASE IS OVER 500% ON R2 & C1 UNMETERED CUSTOMERS.
The daylight robbery by these DISCOs must be STOP!
They stalled the pre-paid metering process by charging too much for it instead of installing it for FREE or provide an option to pay on INSTALLMENTS. Even when you apply & pay they stall it for months because they can only dupe people with estimated bills.
A retired staff of these DISCOs told me in confidence how they generate sales:
They set a monthly target
Deduct Sales from pre-paid meter cards
Deduct postpaid meter bills
Then share the rest on unmetered customers.
They then use the unpaid bills to cover up embezzlement, even if people pay they claim people are owing.
Back in 2019 from June to November I was billed an extra 5000 each month & was forced to pay, when I complained to their IKEDC Abule Egba base they said their computer was not capturing the reading of my postpaid meter for six months but I must pay what they billed. Which I paid with sadness. Where are the courts to sue them to? The legal system is as bad...
Now that they have increased their tarrif plan by 100% they sent 21,000 naira as August 2020 bill to me an R2 unmetered customer (because the meter mysteriously got damaged in June 2020) I've been paying almost 10,000 Naira since June whereas the NERC gave them directives to charge unmetered customers about 2500 monthly and must install a meter in a month or two. Check www.nerc.com.ng map guidlines.
A neighbour whose bill was not up to 5000 per month was billed 106,000 Naira for August 2020 and his 40,000 naira credit balance was deducted. The man was even too shocked to talk. When I reported my case of 21000 Naira bill I was asked to pay part of it. How? Who is making so much money during this Covid-19?
These DISCOs are gods unto themselves they don't answer to the government's directives or cooperate with customers, they just do what they like! These group of people are economic terrorists.
Ask them how come Ajaokute steel owes so much and other abandoned properties. PROBE THEM!
When negotiations with the government does not go their way they look for loopholes to terrorize Nigerians with bills.
I just pray the youths do not come out to attack their contract staffs who carry ladder all over the place disconnecting unmetered customers & collecting bribes from those who can afford it, they collect atleast 2000 in fact there is a percentage depending on the estimated bills the customer owes and more than two groups of disconnection staff can visit the same customers to collect their own share of bribes. It's no secret!
These group of Nigerians (discos) are against the peace and progress of this country!
We must stop them! We have indulged this corruption for too long & it has now become a Meduza!
Lily-Rose
Prophetess