The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere has condemned the recent hike in electricity tariff, asking President Bola Tinubu to compel the Ministry of Power to reverse the increase.
Afenifere’s comment followed the Nigerian Electricity Distribution Company’s (NERC) electricity tariff hike for Band A users – consumers who enjoy at least 20 hours of power supply.
In a Saturday statement, the group said the increment amounts to paying for inefficiency and further compounding the country’s economic woes.
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“In conclusion, Afenifere called on President Bola Tinubu to compel the Ministry of Power, to reverse the present hike, go into alternative energy sources like solar and wind, review the terms with which the 2013 exercise was carried out, and be more innovative,” the statement by the group’s spokesman Jare Ajayi read.
“As the experience from the subsidy on petrol has shown, those who suffer from the government’s withdrawal of subsidy are not necessarily those who benefitted from it,” Afenifere added.
“The victims would be average Nigerians who would patronize services being rendered or items being produced by high power users since they (the latter) would easily pass the higher cost onto their customers.”
Afenifere called on President Bola Tinubu to compel the Ministry of Power, to reverse the present hike, go into alternative energy sources like solar and wind, review the terms with which the 2013 exercise was carried out and be more innovative.
It also called on “state goverments to expedite action in setting up their own respective electricity power plants since they now have power to do so”.
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