Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani-Bello has declared that the people of the state will no longer pay for electricity not provided by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC.
Speaking with newsmen in Minna during an interaction on Nigeria at 60, Bello disclosed that the state government pays N16 million every month, adding that there was no justification that the people of Niger state do not pay their electricity bills.
Confirming that AEDC is not supplying electricity to the people, Sani-Bello wondered why the company expects them to pay for what they were not enjoying.
He vowed that he would no longer tolerate the exploitation of his people by AEDC.
“I have engaged Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and I discovered that there is power but the problem is with the distribution.
“As a state, we pay N16m every month and their complaint has been people are not paying for their service but I discovered that people are not refusing to pay for electricity but they are refusing to pay for the light they did not use,” the governor said.
He asked the distribution company to provide prepaid meters to the households so that people could pay for what they consumed.
“Prepaid meters should be provided instead of the estimated billing. We have offered to give loan to AEDC to provide prepaid meters to the people and pay back gradually but they refused, instead they continue to give estimated bills to the people.

Just in Nigeria.... Provision of meter is now a rocket science...We messed up big time.

We just derive pleasure in exploitation

that state na big for nothing. Only 16 million naira light bill.

Good one.. The prepared meters should be free

How can people buy prepared meters for themselves.. Is akin to going with your own seat to a beer parlour

francis2565:
Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani-Bello has declared that the people of the state will no longer pay for electricity not provided by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC.
Speaking with newsmen in Minna during an interaction on Nigeria at 60, Bello disclosed that the state government pays N16 million every month, adding that there was no justification that the people of Niger state do not pay their electricity bills.
Confirming that AEDC is not supplying electricity to the people, Sani-Bello wondered why the company expects them to pay for what they were not enjoying.
He vowed that he would no longer tolerate the exploitation of his people by AEDC.
“I have engaged Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and I discovered that there is power but the problem is with the distribution.
“As a state, we pay N16m every month and their complaint has been people are not paying for their service but I discovered that people are not refusing to pay for electricity but they are refusing to pay for the light they did not use,” the governor said.
He asked the distribution company to provide prepaid meters to the households so that people could pay for what they consumed.
“Prepaid meters should be provided instead of the estimated billing. We have offered to give loan to AEDC to provide prepaid meters to the people and pay back gradually but they refused, instead they continue to give estimated bills to the people.

add a source, so that it can make the FrontPage.

A whole Niger state that houses the great kainji dam?

Kv

YoonSung:
Audio Loan! Make I hear say una no go pay

Did u listen to buhari's speech abi broadcast?

whemmytopsy:
Just in Nigeria.... Provision of meter is now a rocket science...We messed up big time.

We just derive pleasure in exploitation

It maynot be exploitation but crass incompetence as a people.
I always point GSM and relate it with power.5 years after privatization,there hasn't been a single digit improvement in power supply.
5 years into same phone privatization in same Nigeria,but this time run by foreign firms,phonr communication became a common commodity reaching villages.
I am saying it,give these same nigerian run power firms 100years, nothing would change, because these are just power firms privatized for political patronage and not based on any competence or availability of genuine funds to run them.

anibi9674:
that state na big for nothing. Only 16 million naira light bill.

Many private estates in Lagos pay more than N16 million monthly.

16 million or 16 billion?

YoonSung:
Audio Loan! Make I hear say una no go pay

Did you read the news at all?

anibi9674:
that state na big for nothing. Only 16 million naira light bill.

he is talking of state govt light bill for state-owned buildings.

if u don't pay for light. u will pay for darkness

In the South, people pay for the prepaid meter. At least I know of Lagos and Enugu cases.

People are seriously cheated in the country. It like a jungle where the strong takes from the weak.

niger state governor is the worst APC governor

Politicians can talk

better and good...hope other states will learn n take a clue from this...say no to estimated billing!

Where is that minister of darkness... Fashola?

Cyberterror:
he is talking of state govt light bill for state-owned buildings.

We understand. Only N16 million for a State Government comprising Executive, Legislature and Judiciary.

Government functionaries have Lodge and Secretariats.

Why won't they refused, THEY'RE FRAUD.

“Prepaid meters should be provided instead of the estimated billing. We have offered to give loan to AEDC to provide prepaid meters to the people and pay back gradually but they refused, instead they continue to give estimated bills to the people.