Customers Services Week: EKEDC to give 100 free prepaid meters to customers

THE management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has announced plans to give free 100 prepaid meters to its customers during its customer service week.

EKEDC General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr Godwin Idemudia said this in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos on Wednesday.

According to Idemudia, in a bid to ensure 100 per cent customer’s satisfaction, our management has decided ensure that all our customers who has paid there electricity bills to date without outstanding would have free meters through raffle draw.

” Please note that meters will be issued to the 10 lucky customers per district. These customers must be  regular paying with zero outstanding. The customers who will be entitled to the free meter must have no record of energy theft and had no record of hostility towards our staff,” he said.

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Idemudia said that the EKEDC’s district manager and commercial manager are required to send 20 names of customers that fall under these categories before 12 noon on Thursday.

“A raffle draw will be done for  twenty customers per district, while only 10 customers will qualify per district,” he said.

The EKEDC spokesman said that raffle draw is on Thursday at the company’s headquarters.

He said that the company was rated high in metering and billing efficiency in the 2018 first quarter report of the National Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC).

He said that the company was currently rated the lowest in terms of Aggregate Technical and Consumer loss, adding that newly acquired smart meters would be rolled out soon.

Idemudia said that EKEDC was constantly doing its best to ensure effective delivery in spite of constant pipeline vandalism which had affected power generation and resulted in transmission constraints.

He stated other challenges to include by-passing of meter, energy theft as well as stealing of cables.

He said that the company’s Customer Service Week which has commenced , with the theme – ”Experience Happens Here’’ – would afford customers the
opportunity to have all their complaints addressed.

The six-day programme would include feeding of 500 people in poor communities within its license area and creating awareness on the
importance of the customer service week.

Others include distribution of free meters  and random calls to customers, thanking them for their patronage as well as celebrating some officials that met or exceeded targets.

Idemudia urged customers to always use the various medium of communications on the social media to get their complaints addressed.