{"id":282,"date":"2018-09-27T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreezoneblog.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/27\/electricity-consumers-aggrieved-over\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T08:34:00","slug":"electricity-consumers-aggrieved-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/electricity-consumers-aggrieved-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity consumers aggrieved over exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tv6J1BdqCJ0\/W6yVzkAAIfI\/AAAAAAAADpc\/vCrct4kCDks9PiF58mFebghQlvykQR7SgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/ELECTRICITY.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"718\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/thefreezoneblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ELECTRICITY.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nNigerian electricity consumers are<br \/>\naggrieved that they are forced to pay for electric power they did not<br \/>\nconsume, the Executive Director, Consumer Advocacy Foundation of<br \/>\nNigeria, Mrs Sola Salako-Ajulo, has said.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nSalako-Ajulo spoke at a Power Sector<br \/>\nStakeholders and Consumers Summit organised by the Electricity Consumer<br \/>\nProtection Forum on Wednesday in Lagos.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nThe forum, tagged: \u201cFive Years after<br \/>\nPrivatisation of Power Sector, What Next?\u201d brought together stakeholders<br \/>\n in the power sector and consumers in the state.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nSalako-Ajulo said that the first step to<br \/>\nstop such exploitation remained proper enumeration of electricity<br \/>\nconsumers and provision of meters.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nShe described the practice of estimated billing as illegal.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cOur problem is not that they are not giving us power; our problem is that you are charging us for what we don\u2019t consume.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cWe must be sincere in this country. Every house should have a meter,\u201d she said.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nMr Adeola Ilori, the National Coordinator<br \/>\n of the forum, also said that electricity consumers had suffered much in<br \/>\n the hands of the Gencos and Discos.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nIlori said that the privatisation of the power sector had not reduced the trauma of electricity consumers, five years after.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe money people pay for electricity is far higher than the rent.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cNigerian Electricity Regulatory<br \/>\nCommission (NERC) has not been playing its role. How long again will it<br \/>\ntake the issue of estimated billing to become a thing of the past?<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cHow long will consumers bear the cost of<br \/>\n providing transformers, wire, cables and poles for a private<br \/>\nprofit-oriented organisation to serve them when the costs of such are<br \/>\nalready infused into monthly tariff?<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cHow long are we going to watch regulatory body behaving like an ostrich to the plight of the consumers?<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cOur group and members are ready to<br \/>\ndefend themselves against any form of oppression, deliberate and willful<br \/>\n disobedience of extant laws,\u201d Ilori, a legal practitioner said.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nRepresentatives of the Association of<br \/>\nNigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) and the Association of Power<br \/>\nGeneration Companies (APGC), on their part, listed challenges to having<br \/>\nuninterrupted power supply in the country.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nIn his speech, Mr Sunday Oduntan, the<br \/>\nExecutive Director, ANED (Research and Advocacy) said that insincerity<br \/>\nto people on electricity since 1960 had affected positive result in<br \/>\npower generation, transmission and distribution.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nOduntan spoke on the topic: \u201cAre we better in service delivery than the older order? How can it be improved?\u201d<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to him, the population of the<br \/>\ncountry, estimated at over 180 million, is higher than the megawatts<br \/>\nbeing generated and distributed to the people.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nHe said this was a challenge to enjoyment of uninterrupted power supply in the country.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nOduntan listed other challenges facing<br \/>\npower sector to include regulations, government\u2019s failure to fulfill<br \/>\npromises to investors, gas shortage and energy theft.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cWhen there is no gas, there is no power; when there is less gas, there is less power.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cSo, gas is a problem, transmission is a problem, government is a problem and consumers are also problems,\u201d Oduntan said.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nThe director noted that South Africa,<br \/>\nwith 57 million population generated 41.19 megawatts while Nigeria with<br \/>\nover 180 million generated about 5000 megawatts.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cIf there is no electricity, there will not be enough jobs in Nigeria.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cWe are not serving well; we need to step up our game and do better,\u201d he said.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to him, Discos know that<br \/>\nprovision of transformers, wires, cables and poles are their<br \/>\nresponsibility, but there are challenges in meeting demands of the<br \/>\nconsumers.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nThe director condemned power theft and huge indebtedness by consumers.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nHe urged people to expose power theft around them, as others end up paying for the theft.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nOn meters, Oduntan said that every household is entitled to one, either prepaid or postpaid.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nHe urged the people to exercise patience.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nThe director advocated synergy among critical stakeholders and government agencies on power.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nHe said that if government, NERC, Gencos and Discos fail to work together, there won\u2019t be power.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nAlso speaking, Dr Joy Ogaji, the Executive Secretary, APGC, noted that 27 Gencos had been licensed by NERC to generate power.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nShe said that that the companies had the capacity to generate more than 40, 000 megawatts.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nOgaji delivered a paper on \u201cGencos, the Unseen hands in Electricity supply chain \u2013 The good, the bad, the ugly and future\u201d.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nShe said that the major challenge was the transmission of the power to consumers.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to her, the Gencos have been<br \/>\ngenerating between 7000 and 8000 megawatts, but could not get to the<br \/>\nconsumers due to poor transmission network.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThere has not been investment in the distribution.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe transmission company cannot take<br \/>\nmore than 5000. The Gencos have the capacity to give Nigeria up to 40<br \/>\n000 megawatts, but there is no network to transmit them.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cWe have enough power. There is no avenue to pass it across to the people.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cGencos are up to the task and have even exceeded the power target given to them.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cGovernment also must keep promises. I<br \/>\nagree that in the next five years, Nigeria cannot get to its Eldorado\u2019s<br \/>\nin power supply,\u201dOgaji said.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nA University teacher, Dr Yemi Oke,<br \/>\ndelivering a paper on \u201cExpository Analysis of Electric Sector Reform<br \/>\nAct, 2005; the Rights of Consumers and Obligations\u201d said that<br \/>\nelectricity consumers were protected under the law.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nOke, an Associate Professor of Law,<br \/>\nFaculty of Law, University of Lagos, said that Nigerians had a right to<br \/>\nelectricity, a right to properly installed and functional meters and a<br \/>\nright to transparent electricity dealings.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to him, electricity services consumers have a right to report when over-billed and contest any electric bill.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cIt is criminal to use electricity and not pay and it is fraudulent to pay for electricity not used.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe challenge of power is not that of Gencos or Discos alone, but all.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<u><\/u>&nbsp;<u><\/u><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cGas is a problem. The law is problematic. 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