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HOUSE OF REPS STOPS INCREASE IN ELECTRICITY TARIFF FOR BAND A CUSTOMERS
The House of Representatives has stopped the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Company (NERC) from implementing increase in electricity tariffs for customers belonging to Band A,
The lower legislative chamber approved the resolution during its plenary session on Tuesday, following the enactment of a motion addressing pressing public concerns.
The House directed NERC to cease the introduction of the new electricity tariff for Band A customers.
Customers in this group, who are provided with 20 hours of energy daily, were expected to begin paying N225 per kW, a substantial increase over the N66 pricing that was in place previously.
Adebayo Adelabu, the Minister of Power, justified the tariff increase on Monday during a Senate Committee on Power hearing by claiming that the federal government could no longer afford to offer electricity subsidies
Customers in Band A are urged by Power Minister Adebayo Adelabu to stop paying the new electricity cost if they are not receiving up to 20 hours of supply each day.
The Minister also revealed that, the Federal Government would reimburse N2.9 trillion for electricity subsidies this year.During a one-day investigative hearing on the necessity of stopping the proposed rise in energy tariff, the minister made this statement in front of the Senate Committee on Power.
These problems are here and the government is demolishing businesses to start a coastal road that it cannot complete in her life time. Where are our priorities?
As a consumer of electricity, my area is categorized Band B that will be transfered to A one month after the increase. Why? As it is now, I do not get more than 8 hours of electricity in a day. So what makes me Band B and what will NERC and EEDC, together with the new EEC do in one month to increase my power supply from 8 to 20 hour per day?
This merely an organised rape of consumers that is in line with the program and policies of the stolen-mandate government of APC. We shall see what will be left of Nigeria after these first 4 years. The time is coming when all State Governors will relocate to Abuja.