Effective service delivery and prompt payment of utilities by Nigerians is the focus of episode 10, season six of Glo- sponsored TV drama series, Professor Johnbull.
The programme is aired on NTA Network, NTA International on DSTV channel 251 and NTA on StarTimes at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday and also at 6.00 p.m. on Sunday on DSTV Africa Magic Family and GOTV Channel 2, with repeat broadcast on Thursday at 9.30 p.m. Anambra Broadcasting Service also broadcasts it on Wednesday and Saturday by 8.00 pm.
Titled Cold Meters, the new episode emphasises the need for effective and efficient service delivery by public corporations and the need for the public to reciprocate the gesture by paying their bills as and when due.
It highlights how members of the public resort to sabotaging public companies through non-payment of bills, destruction of their tools or tampering with devices installed to determine charges in response to poor services rendered.
In trying to find everlasting solutions to the constant problem between public corporations and the general public, the following posers were raised in Cold Meters: Should consumers pay for epileptic services? Can anyone justify the huge sums claimed by electricity distribution companies? If consumers don’t pay for services, how will the service providers sustain the services?