OPINION BY MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE: Electricity tariff hike by subterfuge | TheCable
a N10,000 worth of energy. A quick look at the slip showed that instead of the expected 168 units, the money only fetched 146. Of course, the increase was not the first of its kind but, somehow, for reasons that were beyond my pocket, that action came as rude. I left the counter and went into one of the offices to seek some explanation even when I knew that the decision wasn’t taken in any of those rooms. I needed something to calm me down a bit.
In fairness to organisations like the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project , efforts are sometimes made to, at least, draw the attention of governments to the travails of buyers of goods and services.
How much longer will electricity consumers in Nigeria endure the fruits of this avoidable systemic dysfunction? For a problem as old as most living Nigerians can remember, no simple answers exist. From the days of the National Electricity Power Authority , an entity that has since assumed a proverbial status, associated mainly with institutional and energy failures, pricing and the actual volume and quality of the electric power that gets to the final users have remained subjects of controversy.
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