Which do you pay to the Power (wit)Holding Company of Nigeria? Is it the amount you charged to your prepaid meter, the outcome of actual reading of your postpaid meter, or the estimate arbitrarily apportioned to you by the PHCN because you have no prepaid or postpaid meter? In other words, do you subscribe to, or pay a rate or a levy to the PHCN?
In yet another danfo (Kombi) bus ride in the Lagos Metropolis, talk gravitated to the billing regime of the PHCN. It was late in the evening. The inner light of the bus kept flickering off and on, and someone had difficulties ascertaining the exact denomination of the naira note that he was pulling out of his pocket. He didn’t want to overpay the bus conductor. He then asked, in derision, “Oga Driver. Why the light for your bus no dey light well, well?” He stirred the hornet’s nest. The driver retorted, “Sebi you no kuku get light for your house.” Everyone laughed. Thereafter, a playful banter ensued between the team of the ebullient driver and the conductor on the one hand, and the passengers on the other hand. A man asserted that the “crazy bill” was a ploy by the PHCN staff to extort money from the public. People wanted to know how, so he gave the following explanation:
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