otoworostephen:
They're very right on this and it is not applicable to only EKDC but all meter users anywhere...

The fear is that meter can easily be bypassed.

Meanwhile, what dey don't know is that professional Electricians like myself can successfully bypass the meter be it outside or inside...

Contact me to bypass your meters in Lagos and it's environs. otoworostephen@gmail.com

Baba, you are painting a bull's eye on yourself. You will get arrested if you don't delete this comment.

DesChyko:
I'll like anyone with insight or experience on why this demand was made to let me know if this is standard practice.

These pair of prepaid meters has been installed since 2009 (14 years ago) and the house was built with conduit wiring. The wire bearing the supply from the electric poles entered the building as shown below and exits where the meters and junction boxes for each flats are installed (pictures shown below).

It was quite surprising when I came home today to meet this 'Disconnection Order' from EKEDC, asking that the wires be pulled out off the wall within 48 hours to avoid disconnection (or visit their office at Isashi).

I'd like to know if anyone has had this experience before and what the reason for such order is as I do not think conduit wiring is outlawed by them before now..or has it been outlawed?

Note that there is no contact email or phone number on the order and my primary concern is how breaking the walls if necessary might affect the structural integrity of the building. I'll appreciate any rapid response to this.

Thanks in advance.

Pic 1: The order: Meter No(Yellow), Home Address (Blue).
Pic 2: Entry point of wires
Pic 3: Exit point of wires
Pic 4: Remarks on order

it's a very simple thing. Remove the meter and mount it at the point of entry point of Wires. That's a very simple thing to do. No need of breaking any wall.

What's the point of bringing it here. Why don't you just visit their office for clarification and sort your things out. Rubbish from the top draw.

To prevent structural defect to the building, You can let electrician help you cut the wires at the point it enters the wall and join with another wires to length enough to reach the meter terminal. Such that the wires can be seen physically from pole to meter terminal... It is statutory requirement.

sirray001:
ode ewure. Your response has no meaning

E pain the Werey

U go explain tire

DenreleDave:


E pain the Werey

U go explain tire

dopemu don't have your time

DesChyko:
I'll like anyone with insight or experience on why this demand was made to let me know if this is standard practice.

These pair of prepaid meters has been installed since 2009 (14 years ago) and the house was built with conduit wiring. The wire bearing the supply from the electric poles entered the building as shown below and exits where the meters and junction boxes for each flats are installed (pictures shown below).

It was quite surprising when I came home today to meet this 'Disconnection Order' from EKEDC, asking that the wires be pulled out off the wall within 48 hours to avoid disconnection (or visit their office at Isashi).

I'd like to know if anyone has had this experience before and what the reason for such order is as I do not think conduit wiring is outlawed by them before now..or has it been outlawed?

Note that there is no contact email or phone number on the order and my primary concern is how breaking the walls if necessary might affect the structural integrity of the building. I'll appreciate any rapid response to this.

Thanks in advance.

Pic 1: The order: Meter No(Yellow), Home Address (Blue).
Pic 2: Entry point of wires
Pic 3: Exit point of wires
Pic 4: Remarks on order

That wiring is very wrong.
How can the wire from the pole enter through conduit pipe then to prepaid meter.
You have the option of bringing that wire out or installing the prepaid meter outside before where those wires entered into the conduit pipe.
Their fear is that you can bypass the meter and be using light free.

So do as they said. They are right.

abuhusna1:

Tell them to put your meter on pole outside your house. They don't want you to bypass it

Not for this type of meter. The keypad for entering the token is on the meter itself so it needs to be in a place where it is reachable but secure from tampering.

chukkystar:
Meet them in their office and rest

Nah. That was the second option. I'll rather just run the surface wiring and save myself the time of having to search them out. They have unhindered access to where the meters are everytime they come around. If they detected an issue, they'd have mentioned it earlier.

nextstep:
The wiring should not have been conduited right into the building. You typically would have junction box outside the wall, and the mains lines would go into that junction box or meter. This ensures that all the electricity to the building can be disconnected from one place (either for billing or for fire/electrical safety).

As it is, there is no (visual) guarantee that the mains wires are not split in a way that bypasses the meter or mains switch. Again, you want an easily-verifiable way to show that the house is not energized.

Advice would be to do what NEPA has asked: cut the mains, reroute first to a meter, then connect from meter back into the conduit. But I'm sure since I'm talking to a fellow Nigerian blessed with oversabi and shortcut, a few 10k will settle the matter with NEPA and the problem will not be fixed - just ignored... for now.

When he calculates the multiple 10k he will pay..it will be cheaper to just leave the meter running without bypassing..

I think the have monitored your consumption rate and for them it doesn't add up when compared with others within your vicinity.
Assuming there is no bypass like some persons here suspects, your brand of meter ( being old gen digital meter) runs low when compare to the newer type now.
Knowing you might not want to break the walls the option open to them is to cajole you to change the meter to the newer brand.
I will advice you move your meter to the point of entry pic2 to allay all suspicion.

DesChyko:


Nah. That was the second option. I'll rather just run the surface wiring and save myself the time of having to search them out. They have unhindered access to where the meters are everytime they come around. If they detected an issue, they'd have mentioned it earlier.

it's a settlement thing. It's just about the money, na so NEPA dey.

edlion57:
They are right ,u can only hide ur output cables not the input cables going to the meter,their fear is that u might tap/bypass the power/supply before it gets to the meter.

why not install the meter at the pole where the light is connected from?.

When you use prepaid Meter, you can't pass load cables through conduits, it's not allowed, bypass can take place internally. So if you are sure you have not bypassed light,let your cables be visible outside.

We just got the same notice in Phc now but they gave us 10days

Rules change from time to time and this is something that has been in existence for some time now in all over EKEDC network

DesChyko:


Thank you so much for taking your time to explain the scenario to me. It makes sense that they are concerned about something like that.

The kind of meter installed those years are those with the keypad for entering tokens on the meter itself so it can't be installed out of reach. And it's puzzling to me since they oversaw the electrification of this place. The insistence on prepaid meters from Day 1 was to avoid NEPA issues.

I'll just pull out the wires and run them on the surface. Even if we have an agreement, it may take a change of manager and we're back to square 1. That 'visiting their office' option smells of probable extortion. I see what few of my neighbours undergo with them and I want no part in those.

I don't really get your question

Digitalwitch:

Can you explain why your counterpart fight tooth and nail to supply electricity during the period of disconnection event though it rains cat and dog or there is thunder storm?

Torpman:
I don't really get your question

Why is power stable during mass disconnection even if there is thunder storm ( why light dey steady wen Una wan cut light? D lite go stable even wen rain dey fall but go of after Una collect moni)

When there's disconnection around an area, power is restored mostly the load/ consumption at that moment is reduced and it'll enable the marketers work especially on prepaid meters to know which ones are still functioning properly

Digitalwitch:

Why is power stable during mass disconnection even if there is thunder storm ( why light dey steady wen Una wan cut light? D lite go stable even wen rain dey fall but go of after Una collect moni)

Torpman:
When there's disconnection around an area, power is restored mostly the load/ consumption at that moment is reduced and it'll enable the marketers work especially on prepaid meters to know which ones are still functioning properly

But wen Una don collect bill finish d lite go off why?