Apapa Residents, Community Leaders Decry PHCN Bills
Mr Manure Joash, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that his analogue meters had stopped working since five years ago, but PHCN kept bringing “crazy” bills.
Joash, a community leader in Olodi Apapa, said that the residents were fed up with the treatment they were receiving from PHCN.
“The analogue meters in our community were installed around 1965 and most of them have stopped working. You can imagine a building that got N4, 000 bill in December 2012 was billed N18, 000 in January,” he said.
“I personally collected all the outrageous bills from residents and took them down to the Apapa Business Unit to complain and up till now nothing has been done,`` he said.
Mr Raji Yusuf, Secretary of Landlords and Tenants Association in Alaba-Oro Community, said that resident no longer understood PHCN bills.
“We truly do not understand the reason why PHCN placed our community on estimated bills. In spite of the total blackout we experienced from December 2012 to March, we are still confronted with bills that run into millions of naira.”
Yusuf said that most of the residents of the community would only be willing to pay the ``amended bills``.
Mr Johnson Ayodele, Secretary of Ido Community in Ajegunle, told NAN that they had been in darkness in the last three months.
Ayodele urged the PHCN to repair its broken down transformer in the area and stop giving them bills while the darkness persisted.
Mr Bolaji Akinsanya, Chairman, Awodi-Ora Community in Ajegunle, said they would write a formal letter to PHCN on the outrageous bills.
He said that PHCN should explain how it was preparing the bills without providing power.
Mr Adewale Obajemu, the Apapa Business Unit Manager, however, said “all bills cannot be crazy”.
He alleged that some residents illegally connected to some street poles and so they must pay for what they consumed.
“There is nothing like over-billing when there is no meter installed. Customers tend to complain of over-billing, but they are actually paying for what they have consumed”.
Obajemu urged the residents to present their cases individually and not be influenced by some misguided community leaders. (NAN)
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