Yesterday, the Senate went hard on Electricity Distribution Companies in Nigeria accusing them of conspiracy to rip off Nigerians despite epileptic supplies to their homes and business premises. The senators vent their
anger during their contributions to a debate on a motion sponsored by former Governor of Ebonyi State, Senator Sam Egwu.
The bill was titled, ‘Unfair Trade Practice of Electricity Distribution Companies in Nigeria’. The senate aasked National Electricity Regulatory Commission ( NERC ) to immediately enforce the abolishment of fixed charges being collected from electricity consumers across the nation.
They also directed DISCOs to discontinue the practice of making consumers pay for meters, poles and transformers which by law, are properties of the DISCOs. And where the consumers had already payed, they should recover their expenses from subsequent consumption of electricity…… instead of directing d FG to b giving jobless Nigerians N550k monthly like in d UK, our senators r doing ds. We av a long way to go in ds county…..
