Jedc Urges Bauchi Customers to Accept Prepaid Meters, Settle Electricity Bills

Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar, Marketing Manager, Bauchi Trading Zone of Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) on Sunday observed that most customers in the state were reluctant to install Prepayment Meters (PPM) in spite of its advantages.Abubakar told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi that some of the customers had the misconception that with PPM, they would spend more on electricity.

"Most customers do not have ideas of proper energy management. With PPM, one can determine his or her energy consumption by taking several measures to avoid waste.

"If accepted by all customers, the PPM will proffer solution to over 99 per cent of disagreement between Distribution Companies and customers because the major area of friction is always on billing," he said.He stated that plans were in the pipeline to ensure the metering of all customers by 2018, but added that people must embrace the PPM for the target to be achieved.

The manager lamented the poor attitude of customers in his zone towards settling their electricity bills, thereby making company to lose revenue.According to him, out of about 19,000 customers in his zone, those settling their bills regularly are not up to 12,000.He said this is aside from the loss being incurred by the company in recouping the...

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