New electricity tariff wrongly-timed – Gov Bello
The Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, on Thursday, defened the common man in Nigeria when he declared that the recent introduction of new electricity tariff by the regulatory agencies “is wrong.”
Bello, who made the declaration in Minna, when he received the management and staff of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, led by its Chairman, Alhaji Shehu Malami, at Government House, explained that the timing of the increase in tariff was wrong because most Nigerians were grappling with serious economic challenges.
He said that the electricity distribution agencies had not served the people satisfactorily to justify the new tariff.
“The issue of tariff is a national issue it is not peculiar to Niger State alone. I think it came at the wrong time, because Niger is a state, where people depend on the government. Unfortunately, now, that government has no money it is a negative impact on everyone. The new tariff made it worse because people cannot pay for what they didn’t consume.”
Bello expressed the hope that the concerned agencies would take a second look at the policy in the interest of the ordinary Nigerian.
Recently the National Electricity Regulatory Commission unveiled a new increment of 45 percent for all classes of consumers of the product, even as the Commission abolished the continuous fixed charges for all electricity consumers in the country.
