The issue of the hike in electricity supply is still high on the agendas of most discussions in the country. Coming into the chamber straight from their short break, the Senate is calling for the Ministry of Power to direct the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission to order the distribution companies to suspend the increment immediately.
When they were buying the distribution companies, many of the investors obviously did not have the funds to run them. Now the bulk of the problem is falling on the consumer who’s now been taxed to pay for their losses a matter of urgent national importance by Senator Sulieman Nazif throw a discourse open on the floor of the Senate. It wasn’t a party line affair as Power Supply affects everyone in the country and so in contributing, members wondered why the problem is rearing its head after the privatization.
