Yesterday morning, I was speaking with an official of Ikeja Electric and from all we discussed, one thing I took home is that Abesan people don’t vend and so their revenue has dropped.
If you must have
electricity supply through your prepaid meter, you must vend. Does it then mean
people no longer use electricity? No, this is not true. What it actually means
is that Ikeja Electric staff are still used to the old way of getting money
from residents of Abesan. They still live in the past. It is now “pay as you go”
you pay for what you consume and this has drastically reduced the revenue of
Ikeja Electric in Abesan and maybe other places.
Another thing is that many people now stay in darkness until they have money to vend. “A night, maybe two isn’t too much till I can gather a chunk to subscribe”, someone once told me.
