According to information obtained by Foxiz Nigeria, electricity distribution providers will start handing out prepaid metres again this week as part of the Metre Assets Provides scheme.
At a virtual stakeholders’ forum, Ikeja Electric’s Morenikeji Amosun, Head of Metering Team, revealed this.
Amosun informed the attendees of the meeting that a fresh batch of metres had been imported as part of the initiative and that deployment will soon resume.
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He further stated that before attending to new orders, the company would first clear its backlog of orders from roughly two to three months ago.
He said that while new orders would be subject to new metre pricing, power consumers who had paid the old prices prior to the Nigerian power Regulatory Commission’s recently disclosed prices would be metered without additional payment.
We can guarantee that MAPs has brought in fresh metres, and consumers will start receiving their metres in the upcoming week and beyond, he said. However, individuals who had ordered roughly two or three months prior at older prices would receive priority. There will be no further fees for individuals who had paid the old prices before they received their metres. But the new prices would apply to fresh orders.
