NGO tells AEDC to provide prepaid meters to FCT satellite communities

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The Downtrodden People’s Empowerment Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has appealed to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to accelerate metering of its customers in satellite communities of the FCT.

Its President, Mr Tijani Olabode, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said the appeal became necessary because of the volume of unmetered customers in the satellite communities.

Olabode also said that the organisation had written to Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to prevail on Distribution Companies (DISCOs) to intensify mass metering, provide and upgrade overloaded transformers in the country.

He listed the satellite towns in the FCT that required metering and change of the overloaded transformers, including Tudunwada and Sauka-Kauta villages in Lugbe.

Others are Jikwoyi in Karu and Bako communities in Gwagawalada in the…

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