Nigeria: NECAN Accused DISCOs of Extorting Customers

22 May 2015

The Nigerian Electricity Consumers Advocacy Network, NECAN, has accused the Distribution companies of extorting customers by billing them for unsupplied power. This is even as customers in Isashi areas in Lagos state has warned DISCOs marketing officers in the area not to venture entering the areas with the notion to disconnect resident until there is improvement in the power supply deliver to the community.

"In a chat with Vanguard, the Interim President of NECAN, Mr. Tomi Akingbogun, said "There is a big challenge in the billing system of the DISCOs to customers because tariff is so high with the bills pegged at a constant and increasing rate despite the drop in power supply to make up for such demands from the public."

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