Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc (BEDC) has installed more than 25 per cent of the 90,870 meters targeted for customers under the first phase of the National Mass Metering Programme (NNMP) expected to be completed in the next three months.
The company disclosed this in a communiqué issued at the end of a Town Hall meeting on “Facilitating metering and Combating Electricity Theft in BEDC states” organised recently by the Stakeholders Democracy Network (SDN) for critical stakeholders in the electricity sector in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
According to the communiqué, BEDC plans to eliminate estimated billing for unmetered customers in its four franchise states of Delta, Edo, Ekiti and Ondo over a period of six months as part of the NNMP.
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