DONSMITH123:


from everything you typed here. I can tell you work with them

9jakohai:


We smiled when GSM companies were bringing us outrageous bills for poor services back in 2003.

But we kept on paying their price...and they had the money to improve services, add new services, and also bring down prices eventually.(SIM cards used to cost N5000.).

9jakohai:



Actually I work in the human services field....and I am not a PHCN staff (I even had an issue with them 18 months ago over prepaid meter vs estimated bill....and ended up with estimated bill much to my annoyance.).

I am merely making the point that if we want improved services...we have to pay our power bills. (And by the way, that includes some Govt agencies and parastatals).

Or we beg PMB to go to the World bank and take a loan for....oh well....N5 trillion naira , just for power sector.Guess who pays the debt back?

MrPRevailer:


Let me guess. The post of a grade 4 kid.

Ask around or just Google how many MULTI-trillions of Nigeria has been allocated to NEPA, IKEDC and other power generating companies.

After 56 years, a major crudeoil producing country is still importing fuel, diesel products.

Empower your sense.

unclezuma:


From 1956 till 2017 nah wetin you wan take compare from 2000 till 2017, bros you get conscience?

9jakohai:


I am in my thirties, and I work for my living, and I no longer live with my dear mama and papa...the dears...so your thinking that I am a grade 4 kid shows that your powers of mediumship are rather poor. You need to go back to medium school.



Govt privatised NEPA in 2014. All NEPA gets from govt nowadays is ''counterpart funding''..which was about N500million...not enough .

The DISCOS and GENCOS are now generating their funds themselves.



Yes I know....and I find it disgraceful by the way. And really you are not psychic.



Yes darling.I will! I always drink 10 glasses of water a day.....

9jakohai:



Actually I work in the human services field....and I am not a PHCN staff (I even had an issue with them 18 months ago over prepaid meter vs estimated bill....and ended up with estimated bill much to my annoyance.).

I am merely making the point that if we want improved services...we have to pay our power bills. (And by the way, that includes some Govt agencies and parastatals).

Or we beg PMB to go to the World bank and take a loan for....oh well....N5 trillion naira , just for power sector.Guess who pays the debt back?

unclezuma:


Dem touch you too?

Boy101:


What I understand about your point is that we have to pay for the terrible power supply so they can have enough money to improve on their services ? Right ?

Wrong !!!!

The private companies who now run the power in the country are expected to have the ground capital to improve on their services and when Nigerians can have power for just 20hrs in a day , loopholes caused by those who don't pay would be highly discouraged and you would be surprised Nigerians would stand against people like the accused in the Op's post and ensure everyone now pays to ensure continuity of good power supply.

If they(private companies) offered to take over from the Government, they should understand that despite government money pumped into improving power supply, it still had little or no impact, is it the peanuts from struggling Nigerians that would now make the difference ?

9jakohai:


Point is...you don't get what you do not pay for.

Plus...ECN (which became NEPA in 1978) actually provided very good service. NEPA's problems began when the govt started connecting people to the national grid aimlessly....and when no investment was made in improving generating capacity, or transmission from 1980-2000.

GSM companies have done well...because we kept paying...even when the services was bad.(Like the time in 2004...when in one month I got 4 calls from someone calling another number...not mine!)......ensuring they had the money to make the improvements.

MrPRevailer:


That's why I said 'Empower you sense'.

Because it's either you're a grade 4 or dull at 30.

unclezuma:


That is constantly happening ...people just got used to it.

RobinRay:
mtchewww meanwhile.........

9jakohai:


That is the problem....you are one of the few bill payers who actually pays....most people don't.

And when PHCN tries to get people who do not pay....like Mr Ozoigbo Ikenna....he assaults them, and we clap for him....not knowing that we are clapping against ourselves.

BiafranPrince:


Where were you when the Premiumtimes reported that government agencies and military barracks owes DISCOS billions of Naira...those are the ones who them, the ordinary citizens always grudgingly pay, so as not to have their wires taken and incase they bring that their rubbish light, so they will not feel left out.....

People pay their bills, the ones who dont pay is the government and all the useless gvt agencies they are running.

https://www.nairaland.com/3018584/nigerian-army-govt-offices-owe

9jakohai:


Yes...as I have said elsewhere on this thread....govt parastatals too have problems with paying (N58bn in 2016).

If those that owe PHCN/DISCO pay up...the money to get us to light 24/7 would be there

9jakohai:


Sadly, PHCN also needs the money from the bills to make improvements so that you can have light 24/7.

Indeed one big reason why the DISCOS, GENCOS and TCN cannot guarantee light is because most Nigerians do not pay their light bills at all.

Even the prepaid meter that was supposed to end pay dodgers....people bypass them so that they can get free light.

And as a result...there is no money to buy new equipment, no money to upgrade existing equipment, and no money to even expand the power supply.

Thanks to privatisation, which most Nigerians did not oppose...the onus is even more on us to pay for our light. We cannot refuse to pay for light because they have not given us light at all. That means that there would be no money not only for power infrastructure improvement...but also no money for staff salaries too. And DISCO/GENCO workers are Nigerians like you...who also have bills to pay, and lives to maintain.

We may look at this man who beat up DISCO staff as a hero. We may even encourage more people to go ahead and commit acts of violence against DISCO staff....but remember....the reason why we do not have power is because we refuse to pay our bills.

Am sure the man who beat up the staff would complain if his working place did not give him his salary. He would complain that it prevents him from being an effective worker.Why then do we insist on making power supply inefficient for all....by refusing to pay our bills.

Sorry.....but Ozoigbo Ikenna and people like him ARE the reason why you Nigerian people do not have light.

Please...pay your bills. OK?

9jakohai:


Sadly, PHCN also needs the money from the bills to make improvements so that you can have light 24/7.

Indeed one big reason why the DISCOS, GENCOS and TCN cannot guarantee light is because most Nigerians do not pay their light bills at all.

Even the prepaid meter that was supposed to end pay dodgers....people bypass them so that they can get free light.

And as a result...there is no money to buy new equipment, no money to upgrade existing equipment, and no money to even expand the power supply.

Thanks to privatisation, which most Nigerians did not oppose...the onus is even more on us to pay for our light. We cannot refuse to pay for light because they have not given us light at all. That means that there would be no money not only for power infrastructure improvement...but also no money for staff salaries too. And DISCO/GENCO workers are Nigerians like you...who also have bills to pay, and lives to maintain.

We may look at this man who beat up DISCO staff as a hero. We may even encourage more people to go ahead and commit acts of violence against DISCO staff....but remember....the reason why we do not have power is because we refuse to pay our bills.

Am sure the man who beat up the staff would complain if his working place did not give him his salary. He would complain that it prevents him from being an effective worker.Why then do we insist on making power supply inefficient for all....by refusing to pay our bills.

Sorry.....but Ozoigbo Ikenna and people like him ARE the reason why you Nigerian people do not have light.

Please...pay your bills. OK?

9jakohai:


We did it for the GSM companies....and it worked.




In other words....if I got you right....you want the power companies to not only give you light 24/7....but pay for it too?


(Yes...like you set up a business...and you are so magnanimous to give your customers what they want free of charge without paying anything to you so that you can have the money to look after yourself.....AND IMPROVE SERVICES?)

They are businesses.....they are in it to make a profit. Add the fact that Nigeria's power problems are very very serious....we need far more than what we have already spent (and it is too sad some corrupt people looted from that money we have already spent)...to improve things.

RobinRay:
mtchewww meanwhile.........

SalomonKane:
Dude, I pay my bills. I don't owe. PHCN know those people who owe and they know those who don't.

9jakohai:


But services are much better now than they used to be ten years ago...

refreshrate:
That man is a hero and deserves to be celebrated.

Thank you sir for sending a clear message to those thieving bastards.

Ekedc your turn is next

Ndi ara.

9jakohai:



Actually I work in the human services field....and I am not a PHCN staff (I even had an issue with them 18 months ago over prepaid meter vs estimated bill....and ended up with estimated bill much to my annoyance.).

I am merely making the point that if we want improved services...we have to pay our power bills. (And by the way, that includes some Govt agencies and parastatals).

Or we beg PMB to go to the World bank and take a loan for....oh well....N5 trillion naira , just for power sector.Guess who pays the debt back?

9jakohai:


We smiled when GSM companies were bringing us outrageous bills for poor services back in 2003.

But we kept on paying their price...and they had the money to improve services, add new services, and also bring down prices eventually.(SIM cards used to cost N5000.).

9jakohai:


Sadly, PHCN also needs the money from the bills to make improvements so that you can have light 24/7.

Indeed one big reason why the DISCOS, GENCOS and TCN cannot guarantee light is because most Nigerians do not pay their light bills at all.

Even the prepaid meter that was supposed to end pay dodgers....people bypass them so that they can get free light.

And as a result...there is no money to buy new equipment, no money to upgrade existing equipment, and no money to even expand the power supply.

Thanks to privatisation, which most Nigerians did not oppose...the onus is even more on us to pay for our light. We cannot refuse to pay for light because they have not given us light at all. That means that there would be no money not only for power infrastructure improvement...but also no money for staff salaries too. And DISCO/GENCO workers are Nigerians like you...who also have bills to pay, and lives to maintain.

We may look at this man who beat up DISCO staff as a hero. We may even encourage more people to go ahead and commit acts of violence against DISCO staff....but remember....the reason why we do not have power is because we refuse to pay our bills.

Am sure the man who beat up the staff would complain if his working place did not give him his salary. He would complain that it prevents him from being an effective worker.Why then do we insist on making power supply inefficient for all....by refusing to pay our bills.

Sorry.....but Ozoigbo Ikenna and people like him ARE the reason why you Nigerian people do not have light.

Please...pay your bills. OK?