A cross section of Nigerians has kicked against the claim by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC) that the increased electricity bills by power distribution companies was due to stability in power supply in the past three months.
Some of the electricity consumers who spoke to our correspondent said the claim  was not all encompassing.
According to Boniface Madume, a welder, who spoke to our correspondent, the NERC was economical with the truth.
He said not every section has been receiving electricity as claimed.
Madume said so long as the estimated billing system was still on going, there was no way the increased tariff could be justified.
For Blessing Uzo, who operates a cold room in Port Harcourt, the explanation by NERC should not be a yard stick  for the increased billing.
She explained to our correspondent that a lot of electricity consumers  do not have metres in their houses and wondered why the increase should be justified, adding that electricity officials  do not even read metres in the first place.
Uzo claimed that she has been paying her electricity bills as at when due, yet bills sent to her have not been stable even as she said there has not been any marked improvement in electricity supply to her company.
However, Mr Nelson Obiozor, who runs a mini shopping centre explained that metering should be done according to consumption to enable users of electricity know the amount due them for payment ever  before bills arrive.
Power generation in the country hit an all-time high of 5,80.7 megawatts on August 25, 2015. Prior to this peak generation Nigeria’s electricity generation had hovered between 3,000MW and 3,500MW for years,  Our correspondent gathered.
In the past two months, power consumers, especially those on estimated billing had repeatedly complained that they were being over billed by electricity distribution companies.
Although, according to investigations by our correspondent, the  Chairman of NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, has stated that he was aware of the complaints, he explained that the marginal stability in power supply necessitated the increase in bills.
He, however, noted that electricity tariffs had not changed and added that customers who paid bills that were calculated based on illegal rates should contact the commission.
An indigenous survey firm NOIPOLLS, in its latest report for the third quarter of 2015 released last week had stated that power supply across the country has improved.