Criminalize Estimated Electricity Tariff FEMI GBAJABIAMILA Says At public Hearing On His Bill At House Of Representatives.
Public Hearing on Bill to Criminalize Estimated Electricity Tariff held at House of Representatives. The Bill when passed will protect the DISCOs/ the Consumers and place all parties in a ‘win’ ‘win’ position. Protocol, The history of power sector in Nigeria has been that of inefficiency, monopoly inadequate funding and high level corruption. Corruption on the part of many consumers who steal energy and their refusal to pay for power consumed, and on the part of the providers who milked consumers dry via outrageous estimated billing. An estimated bill is a situation when your electricity provider predicts the amount of power you would have used in a month based on your usage from the previous month. This is proper definition of Estimated Billing. Why should an energy provider estimate a consumer’s bill? A research reveals that in other parts of the world, particularly in the United States, a consumer may be estimated on the following grounds: a. It can be costly for supplie