A bill for an Act to amend the Electric Power Reform Act to prohibit and criminalise estimated billing by the Electricity Distribution Companies has passed third reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, which was sponsored by the Leader of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila (APC-Lagos), had scaled public hearing on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. NAN recalls that at the public hearing, Gbajabiamila said there was nowhere in the world where electricity customers are billed arbitrarily as obtains in Nigeria. Gbajabiamila said the estimated billing could only be used in situations where the meter of the consumers could not be accessed by the energy company. He argued that the DisCos had accepted estimated billing as the normal practice by making accurate and exact billing the exception.

Source: Punch January 22, 2019 13:51 UTC