The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) announced that it will launch a billing capping order enforcement of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to protect Nigerian consumers.
This was disclosed by Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Executive Vice Chairman of the commission in an interview with NAN on Sunday in Abuja. He disclosed that the scheme was necessitated by multiple customer complaints on billing.
“There are certain industries that require special treatment, one of them is electricity,” he said.
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He added that the Commission plans to implement stronger enforcement in 2021 and has commenced talks with the NERC for it.
“Secondly, we want to plan a more strategic approach to intervening in the complaints.
“And so through the year, periodically, we take some of our teams to locations where we have seen that there are a lot of complaints and spend some time there ensuring that DisCos address complaints to make sure that issues that people are dissatisfied with are resolved.
“That is a very important one for that sector this year,” Irukera said.
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What you should knowÂ
- Recall Nairametrics reported that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) announced that 62.63% of electric customers in Nigeria were under the estimated billing package as at September 2020.
- The Federal Government also revealed that electricity consumers who paid for meters under the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) scheme, will have a refund of their money.
The tartiff increase is more than 100% within two months it is not helping we the poor something positive must be done to this.
This exercise is not in Port Harcourt. The billing in Trans Amadi and its environs are biting their lips while paying for what they consume. There is too much disparity in the billing here.
This exercise is not in Port Harcourt. The billing in Trans Amadi and its environs are biting their lips while paying for what they consume. The disparity in the billing here is too much and unacceptable.
Hi ! both NERC, and FCCP, and DISCO, I don’t believe these bodies take the “Consumers” interest in to consideration, with this “Hike in Tariff” they could see that the turn out in payment is some how “Low and Poor” unlike before. I ‘ve written “Ikejaeletric” to do an adjustment, unless the want “Outstanding” to continue pilling up. Well they things are going now anything may happen because “Consumers” are not find it easy again to be paying this fucking high bills
Since last year till date my single shop without AC just two tv 5 system two fan my billings monthly is 90k or 80k at oregun ikeja I don’t know what to say about the bill