Omo, see ehn, if you wan hear better news today, make you sit down. Free free meters don land for we side! Di Director-General of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Dr. Ayodeji Gbeleyi yarn say di meters wey dem provide under di $500 million Distribution Recovery Program (DISREP) no go cost you anything at all. Na so e be!
Him come dey reason am for Abuja as him dey yan with plenty oga from di industry. Di man don warn people sharply say make dem no allow any electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) collect money from dem for di meters. If dem ask you to pay, you better carry your leg waka report dem!
Di Federal Government don use dis program to stop estimated billing wey dey carry plenty wahala come people wey no dey see correct light. Dr. Gbeleyi no dey play because he don cut across say di meters na for everybody wey no get am. E even talk say 182,000 meters don already land and dem don install dem well! No be small thing.
As e be, di NERC Chairman, Dr. Musliu Oseni, join di gist come confirm say di government don borrow money just to make sure say di meters dey free. E talk say: “DisCos no suppose charge anybody for these meters. E go bad if you hear any story wey no sweet.” Abeg, if anybody dey do strongman for meter matter, make you no carry wahala, just report dem!
Gbeleyi come drop another gist say di DISREP na two-part program wey dey involve $250 million for di supply of smart meters wey go serve about 3.2 million customers. Na real level dem dey push for better service for electricity, no be all dis estimated billing wey dey make people dey vex.
Na so e be, Oseni still talk say di government don dey take responsibility for di meters. “We don pay for di DISREP meters through di World Bank facility, so you no go pay squat!” E still dey talk say reform dey come make the states go fit handle subsidy for electricity matter.
Abeg, he even stress say na extortion if anybody dey ask you to pay for di DISREP meters or installation. Just fine your own way go report dem to di commission. Make we clear, di whole metering gap wey dey before don reduce from 10 million come 5 million as TCN Managing Director, Engr. Abdulaziz Sule don talk!
30 percent of di new meters don land Nigeria, and NEMSA don already test over 576,000 meters before di new year start, oh! Di Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, wey no fit show face but send Dr. Adedayo Olowoniyi come, still gree say dem go close di metering gap totally under dis administration. “We go solve di metering wahala!” him talk.
Di Manage Director of Abuja DisCos, Okwuokenye Chijioke, talk say dem don follow di DISREP project full ground and dem dey try stop extortion for their side. EKO DisCos Managing Director, Wola Joseph Condotti, still yarn say di same thing too, but make we shine eye for di few bed eggs wey dey spoil di system.
So, my people, if una dey chill for house and you no get correct meter, make no body use your matter play, your time to shine don come. Na real deal dis meters wey dey land for us!
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