Consumers Owe PHCN N7bn In Kano

Electricity consumers in Kano owe the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) over N7billion.

Disclosing this to newsmen, Public Affairs Manager, PHCN,  Alhaji Murkhtar Baffa Usman said most of the debts were owed by residential customers.

According to him, “state governments in the zone are not bad debtors, only residential customers that we are having problems with.”

He also disclosed that the total bill charged Kano zone in January alone was about N600million.

Usman, however, said that the zone was putting a debt recovery team in place to ensure that all the debts were paid.

The manager explained that “at the interface of distribution and transmission, we have a meter that reads the amount of energy that is sent to Kano from the national grid.

“That quantum of energy is what is calculated and then we are billed to pay for that energy with up to 20 per cent loss tolerated,” he said.

He further stated that similar pattern of accountable energy distribution and consumption is being made easier with the introduction of the pre-paid meter system.

Usman noted that adequate number of pre-paid meters had been supplied for sale to consumers in the zone to assist in managing electricity consumption.