Electricity: Senate kicks against estimated billing

ABUJA — THE Senate, on 4th January, 2014 called on the
managers of electricity in the country to discard
what it described as ‘’estimated billing’’ in
charging consumers, saying the method was not
in the best interest of Nigeria and its people.
It said they should instead provide pre-paid
metres to meet up with modern day challenges
in electricity sector.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Mines
and Metallurgy, Philip Aduda, made this known,
yesterday, when the management team of
Electricity Management Service Limited, EMSL,
paid his committee a courtesy visit in Abuja.
Speaking earlier, Managing Director of the
EMSL, Mr. Peter Ewesor, had commended the
committee for its contribution to the successes
so far recorded, in the on-going privatisation of
the power sector.
He said they would do everything within its
powers to ensure accountability in its dealings
with the privatised companies.