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Aiyedatiwa to BEDC: Stop estimated billing

Aiyedatiwa to BEDC: Stop estimated billing

Ondo state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has ordered all DisCos in the state, including the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) to stop giving estimated billing to electricity consumers in the state.

Governor Aiyedatiwa asked them to immediately provide their customers with meters.

Aiyedatiwa spoke when he rolled out low cost electricity meters for residents in the state tagged O’datiwa meters under the Ondo State Mass Metering Programme

The Ondo governor said his order would take effect from June 1, 2024.

He said the mass metering programme was in compliance with the Ondo State

Electric Power Sector Law 2020 Part XII Section 77 (2)(a).

Aiyedatiwa, who spoke through the state Coordinator of the Ondo State Electricity Regulatory Bureau [SERB] Engr. Stephen Bolawole, said all DisCos were expected to meter all the facilities within 12 months with effect from June 1, 2024.

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He urged DisCos to give customers currently being issued estimated billing priority in the mass metering programme.

The coat of the ‘O ‘Datiwa Meters’ were placed at Single phase meter would cost N101,750, three phase meter would cost N185,000 while the Dinrail meter would cost N78,000, all exclusive of VAT.

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