Adedapo Adesanya
By Adedapo Adesanya
The Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) says it hopes to meter not less than 24,000 households monthly in its franchise areas of Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa States.
The Head of Corporate Communications of the company, Mr Ibrahim Shawai, made this disclosure in a statement issued on Monday in Kano.
According to Mr Shawai, all hindrances slowing down the metering process in the Kano franchise have been addressed to fast-track the exercise within the shortest time.
“The move is to ensure that we address all complaints related to the estimated billing system while ensuring equitable delivery of service through metering.
“We are out to aggressively bridge the metering gap, give energy consumers the opportunity to monitor their consumption.
“Our aim is to also meter all customers, hence, our engineers have been trained, placed on standby for any customer who needs meters,” he said.
He advised customers not to accept meter bypass, as such an act sabotages the company’s efforts in raising revenue that will be used to improve the electricity distribution in the states.
“KEDCO will improve power supply, service delivery and ensure customers pay for what they consume,’’ he assured.
Recently, it had also lamented the low response to payment of electricity bills by customers appealing to its customers on the need for them to pay in full all outstanding and current bills so it can improve its investments in network capacity and acquire and maintain equipment to improve power distribution.
KEDCO is one of the 11 licensed distribution companies in the country and is responsible for distributing electricity to the North-Western states of Kano, Katsina and Jigawa.
