According to a press statement signed on Saturday by the Speaker, Dr Azeezat Yishawu, and titled “Increase customer reach not tariff', the Parliament lamented the possible effect on the everyday youth struggling with current realities.
The Speaker urged NERC on the distribution of metres, stressing that it would genuinely increase profit for the government as more people would be brought into the tariff net.
“If the NERC is concerned about generating revenue, it should rather ensure and facilitate procurement and the actual delivery of prepaid metres to Nigerians and increase the number of people who are registered under the agency rather than be a cause of calamity to the Nigerian people. By ensuring this, the agency can increase its revenue while ensuring fairness rather than choking 10 million Nigerians who are on their database and allowing for fraudulent bill estimates.
The Parliament also called on relevant organisations to take advantage of the recent assent of the Electricity Act, adding that such would yield the needed development. “Also, in the wake of the new Electricity Act signed by the president, which allows states to generate their electricity, NERC, and other related agencies, should deploy strategies that will encourage state licensing to companies that can provide electricity.
“Finally, this act alone will provide healthy competition to an already monopolised electricity distribution sector, no more turning off the light grid to drive home an argument,” the statement added.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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