THAT the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission, NERC, has rolled out a new regime of tariff is no longer news. It’s been seven days since the announcement was made, rather strangely, by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu and not NERC’s Rikiji Sanusi Garba.
From N68/per kilowatt hour for those consumers labelled Band A, the price of energy rose to N225 per kilowatt hour. That’s more than 200% increment! But this is an equal opportunity ‘’largesse’’ that is coming to everyone sooner than later, Adebayo Adelabu has made clear. Which may partly explain why many have decided to fight the battle from now on instead of waiting until the new price regime is imposed on everyone and by which time it would be too late to act at all, not to say collectively.
While it might not have been the intention of the officials of the Ministry of Power and their NERC counterparts to give access to something as important as electricity through an apartheid system of social distribution, while they may not be accused of thinking less of Nigerians as human beings given the gross provocation of this exclusionary tariff but that is how it has played out.
What’s wrong with every one enjoying power on equal terms for the hours it’s available? Why is this not the goal of government rather than this easy resort to winding back the hand of the clock by throwing the majority of the nearly 13 million electricity consumers around the country into the “outer darkness” of life without electricity, while the lucky minority of less than two million consumers, the over-pampered breed of a misused national population, are ushered into their paradise of 20...
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