The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) announced that it will launch a billing capping order enforcement of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to protect Nigerian consumers.
This was disclosed by Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Executive Vice Chairman of the commission in an interview with NAN on Sunday in Abuja. He disclosed that the scheme was necessitated by multiple customer complaints on billing.
“There are certain industries that require special treatment, one of them is electricity,” he said.
He added that the Commission plans to implement stronger enforcement in 2021 and has commenced talks with the NERC for it.
“Secondly, we want to plan a more strategic approach to intervening in the complaints.
“And so through the year, periodically, we take some of our teams to locations where we have seen that there are a lot of complaints and spend some time there ensuring that DisCos address complaints to make sure that issues that people are dissatisfied with are resolved.
“That is a very important one for that sector this year,” Irukera said.
What you should know
Confiance News recalls that Nairametrics reports that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) announced that 62.63 percent of electric customers in Nigeria were under the estimated billing package as at September 2020.
The Federal Government also revealed that electricity consumers who paid for meters under the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) scheme, will have a refund of their money.
(Nairametrics)
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