Sabrud Consortium, an indigenous prepaid meter manufacturing company, has advised the Federal Government to allow producers to sell prepaid meters directly to electricity consumers.
Chairman of Sabrud, Chief Bright Nwangwu, made the suggestion in Awka on Tuesday at the company’s Mandatory Compliance and Assessment Programme (MANCAP) certificate for its product.
Nwangwu said direct sale would go a long way in achieving the Federal Government’s objective to have all electricity consumers in Nigeria metered at the shortest possible time.
The chartered engineer said the direct sale and distribution of prepaid meters would increase efficiency in the power marketing and save customers from the nightmare of estimated billing.
He said this would be the best way to solve the estimated billing problem and relieve the distribution companies of the task.
According to Nwangwu, prepaid meter producers have enough capacity to boost effectiveness in power distribution.
The firm thanked the Federal Government for approving the participation of indigenous firms in the manufacture of prepaid
