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Senate Rejects Planned Electricity Tariff Hike

by Sunday Isuwa
1 year ago
in News
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The Senate has urged the executive arm of government to stop its planned increase of electricity tariff via the planned withdrawal of electricity subsidy.
The upper legislative chamber made the call through a motion it adopted at plenary on Wednesday in Abuja.
The motion was captioned “Planned Increase in Electricity Tariff and Arbitrary Billing of Unmetered Customers by Distribution Companies (DisCos)” and brought under matters of urgent public importance by Sen. Aminu Abbas (PDP Adamawa) and 10 co-sponsors.

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Abbas said it was worrisome to hear of the plan to increase electricity tariff by the relevant statutory authority in spite increased economic challenges with attendant widespread poverty and high cost of living in Nigeria.
He claimed that the minister of power was reported to have said that “The nation must begin to move towards a cost-effective tariff model, as the country was currently indebted with N1.3 trillion naira to Generating Companies (GenCos) and $1.3 billion owed gas companies.
According to Abass, the minister had said that more than N2 trillion was needed for subsidy, but only N450 billion was budgeted in 2024.

“The Senate may further note that the same electricity businesses are collecting money from customers for services not rendered, when they have not added anything to the equipment, they inherited from Power Holding Company of Nigeria.
“Communities buy transformers to replace damaged ones in addition to over-burden bills and arbitrary estimates for unmetered customers.
“This is taking place in a country where the greater number of the population is living below the poverty level, with stagnant wages, rising inflation and depreciating currency, the prospect of higher electricity bill is unattainable,” Abbas said.
He said that arbitrary energy charges on unmetered customers had become worrisome given Feb.2024 report of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on non-compliance with energy billing caps by DisCos and penalty of N10.5 billion imposed on DisCos that over-billed its unmetered customers.

Abbas said in 2020 the President of Nigeria had ordered NERC to commence mass pre-paid metering to end estimated billing, saying that funds were released to that effect.

He said it was worrisome that the multiple sanctions declared to be imposed by NERC against DisCos for failing to comply with eradication of estimated billing for unmetered customers, which included credit adjustments to over-billed unmetered customers for the period Jan– Sept, 2023, did not make any impact.

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He expressed reservation that in addition to the high cost of living being experienced in the country, the unmetered customers who are owners of small and medium enterprises were adversely impacted by the level of exorbitant electricity charges which affect their businesses adversely.

Senate in its further resolution mandated the Committee on Power to investigate the over N2 trillion subsidy requirements as stated by the minister of power to avoid the repeat of fuel subsidy scenario.


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Sunday Isuwa is an award winning journalist with over 15 years of experience. Currently at LEADERSHIP Media Group, he has published thousands of articles that have helped in shaping Democracy, Good Governance in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large. His Twitter handle is @IsuwaSunday 

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