KEDCO Moves To Accelerate Meter Deployment, Installation In Kano, Jigawa ,Katsina

Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has tasked the five-meter vendors saddled with the responsibilities of metering customers in Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States to accelerate efforts toward fast-tracking the Meter Asset Providers (MAP) scheme to all its numerous customers to end estimated billing system within the shortest possible time.

The Five-meter vendors are Mojec International, Cresthill Engineering ltd, Armesse consulting ltd, Momas Electricity Meters and Meron Nig ltd.

This was contained in a statement issued on Friday byHead, Corporate Communications, KEDCO Ibrahim Sani Shawai and forwarded to Solacebase.

‘’The Management stated that the decision to call for such urgent measures was borne out of the desire of KEDCO to ensure that issues relating to billing system was put to rest as soon as possible, adding that the satisfaction and happiness of all customers across board is one of the top priority of KEDCO,’’ said the statement.

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‘’The Management maintained that the MAP scheme had been on-going in its franchise areas but it now wants the process fast-tracked to ensure that all customers are given their demands in line with the directive by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).’’

”All customers who meet the requirements are metered within the stipulated period and without any delays. It is their right to regulate and determine their unit of consumption as well as what to pay based on what they use. Since we are always exposed to whatever will make our customers happy, we have directed the vendors to strengthen capacity in meter deployment and installations in all our franchise states. We have also given them a monthly target in terms of deployment and installation of meters.’’

According to the statement,  the Managing Director of KEDCO, Alhaji Jamil Isyaku Gwamna, said the metering system had come to stay and everyone must embrace it in the overall interest of the power sector in Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States.

”We are very much concerned about the need to speedily get all our customers metered and in doing that we have taken serous move in that regard to see to it that no one is left behind. The customer-centric approach of KEDCO to business is something that we value and will continue to prioritize in the interest of customers; after all our happiness is determined by how happy and satisfied our customers are.’’

While calling on customers to embrace the MAP scheme by cooperating with the vendors towards ensuring that complaints on estimated billing are eliminated from KEDCO franchise area, Gwamna assured that the move would bring the needed satisfaction to every customer in Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States.