The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCPCC says unless electricity customers are metered by electricity distribution companies, DISCOS implementation of the new tariff hike will cause dissatisfaction.
Adamu Abdullahi, the acting Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC disclosed this on Sunday in a statement lauding the N200 million sanction imposed on Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission for wrongly billing customers. The Commission's reaction comes on the backdrop of the recent tariff hike for electricity customers under Band A, getting at least 20 hours of power supplies.
reports that of the 12 million electricity customers only 5.7 million are metered according to NERC's data.
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