Mr Akinrolabu, who chairs the Customer Consultative Forum for Festac and Satellite Town, urged DisCos to move beyond delays and excuses.
According to her, offenders face between three and five years’ imprisonment or a fine for bypassing, tampering with, or making unauthorised connections to electricity meters.
No fewer than 178,864 pre-paid meters were installed in Q2 of 2023, representing an increase of 3,586 against the 175,281 installed in 1Q of the same year.
Kaduna Electric announced that it had since started refunding customers who bought meters under the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) scheme.
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“This bill would have put an end to what Nigerians are facing today in the hands of the DisCos but unfortunately it did not scale through.”
