Buhari’s displeasure with power sector performance, an indictment on NERC – Group

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A group, the All Electricity Consumers Protection Forum, said the displeasure of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), with the performance of the power sector is an indictment on the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.

The group advised the president to scrap NERC, which is the power sector regulator, and move its responsibilities to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

Its National Coordinator, Adeola Samuel-Ilori, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos. NAN reports that Buhari had in a televised interview on Wednesday said he was not happy with the state of electricity in Nigeria. He had also questioned the financial and technical competencies of the Electricity Distribution Companies inherited by the administration.However, Samuel-Ilori noted that the buck stops on the table of the president who should demonstrate sufficient political will to rejig the power sector in the interest of national development.

He said, “Our advice to the president is to scrap NERC for not living up to its responsibilities of regulating the industry.

 

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