You can get meters free if… -Ikeja Electric tells customers

 

Ikeja Electric Plc has said that electric meters are free to their customers in spite of the payment they make to acquire them for their property if they can register under the National Mass Metering Programme.

An official of the Disco, James Timothy, stated this while speaking at a virtual sensitisation meeting organised by IE for youth leaders and stakeholders on Friday, March 4, 2022,

He insisted that meters rolled out under the Federal Government’s National Mass Metering Programme were free to consumers.

However, the official of the IE Metering Project Team said that though no payment was required at all for meters issued under the Federal Government’s NMMP because all payments had been made by the Central Bank of Nigeria, meters issued under the MAP scheme required payment by consumers before they could be issued.

“The amount paid by a customer to acquire a meter under the MAP scheme will be refunded to the customer in the form of energy credit spread over the period of 36 months. So, it is also free,” he said.

Timothy added that the Phase Zero of the Federal Government’s NMMP had been completed with over 106,000 customers metered. He said the IE now awaited the Federal Government to release meters for the Phase one of the programme, PUNCH reports

He also said the Phase two of the MAP scheme was currently ongoing and customers who could not wait for the Federal Government’s NMMP should key into the MAP scheme, as he promised speedy metering for all applicants. He noted that over 300,000 customers were metered under the first phase of the MAP scheme, and several others were already being metered under the Phase two.