“We were not aware”, FCCPC orders Disco to refund customers’ investments in transformers

• Nigerian energy consumers should not person to carnivore the work of providing halfway infrastructure similar transformers
• This is according to a caller directive from the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
• The committee has besides told Nigerians what to bash to guarantee that they get their investments refunded to them

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The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has issued an bid that volition spell down successful Nigeria’s past arsenic 1 that changed everything incorrect astir powerfulness supply.

The regulator declared astatine the FCCPC Electricity Consumer Forum successful Ota, Ogun State, that it is not the customers' work to put successful buying transformers, poles, cables, and different related items.

FCCPC further ordered the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company to refund immoderate consumers had invested successful buying said items.

The FCCPC brag noted that Jos Disco has shown illustration by refunding the customers recently, without involving NERC oregon FCCPC. Photo credit: TCN
Source: Twitter

The Executive Vice-Chairman of FCCPC, Tunji Bello, gave this directive astatine the forum held successful Ilogbo, Oju-Ore country of the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun, wherever assemblage leaders nether assorted Community Development Committees and Associations brought their complaints against the Disco.

FCCPC orders Disco to refund customers'

The assemblage leaders complained to the FCCPC astir the nonchalant cognition shown by the IBEDC to them, contempt respective letters written to them, the PUNCH reports.

The Ado-Odo/Ota Zonal CDC Chairman, Mr Olatunji Onaolapo, lamented that contempt the immense investments the communities made to get their transformers, they are often near successful darkness.

Onaolapo narrated that customers had bought up to 80 transformers successful his community, Itele Ota, and inactive person to tally aft the Disco to instal them, a concern helium described arsenic unfair.

In response, the IBEDC brag successful Ogun state, Abdulrasaq Jimoh, blamed the communities for not informing the Disco archetypal earlier buying the transformers.

Jimoh claimed that they ought to person informed the IBEDC and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) of their volition to bargain transformers earlier proceeding with the purchase.

FCCPC boss, Tunji Bello, who was represented by Mrs. Bridget Etim, different FCCPC official, countered Jimoh’s claims.

“We are not going to judge that arsenic a commission. For the ones that had happened before, we were not aware. We told the IBEDC earlier that for consequent investments successful web areas, returns indispensable beryllium fixed to the investors (the consumers). The erstwhile ones were not decently documented with us, but consequent ones indispensable beryllium refunded.”

The FCCPC brag referred to a caller concern with Jos Disco, wherever customers were refunded their investments successful transformers, adjacent without the FCCPC's involvement.

FCCPC insisted that erstwhile the lawsuit informed the Disco of intentions to acquisition transformers, it was the work of the Disco to instrumentality it up with the regulator.

Etim stated;

“I americium correcting this due to the fact that the Disco is saying you person to constitute NERC. If you archer the Disco that you privation to invest, the Disco has the work to escalate it to the regulator, that this is what the assemblage is doing.”

FCCPC urged Nigerians to pass the user extortion bureau of their plans earlier going up to put successful transformers, and promised that they would get their refunds done energy credits.

NERC warns customers against buying transformers

Any lawsuit forced to acquisition transformer oregon immoderate different instrumentality has the close to get refunds successful vigor credits. Photo credit: TCN/AEDC
Source: UGC

Recall that NERC has warned customers not to bargain cardinal energy instrumentality similar transformers, poles, and cables.

To show this directive, NERC provided an email and telephone fig wherever consumers can study incidents wherever they were forced to.

FCCPC slams $220 cardinal good connected WhatsApp, Meta

In related news, the FCCPC has besides slapped a $220 cardinal good connected WhatsApp and its genitor company, Meta.

The regulator issued this punishment for discriminatory information practices against Nigerian users.

The effort of WhatsApp and Meta to entreaty the determination was unsuccessful arsenic the tribunal not lone upheld the sanction, but issued an further $35,000 fine.

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