President Buhari Set to Mete Stiff Measures on Discos, Agents Selling Prepaid Meters

President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his resolve to mete stiff measures to any of the Discos or their agents selling prepaid meters to their customers against the directive that they should be distributed free.

This is in furtherance of the directive that a total of six million meters, manufactured or assembled locally, should be rolled out to electricity consumers to end the agitation against estimated billing.

The Special Adviser to the President on Infrastructure, Ahmed Rufai Zakar, who represented the President at the FGN/NLC-TUC ad-hoc committee on electricity tariff stakeholders engagement in Ibadan, Oyo State on Wednesday, said the president understood the citizens’ plight on issues surrounding electricity and was determined to deal with bad elements.

He said it has been made very clear through the regulators direct order as well as intervention from the Ministry of Power that the meters are to be provided to Nigerians at no cost.