Oduntan also noted that non-payment of electricity bill obligations and tariff that did not allow for full cost recovery could prevent the distribution companies from achieving desired outcome.
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Oduntan said, “It is in our interests to patronise our local manufacturers and I assure Nigerians that we will do that.”
According to him, “Nigerians have an option between light and darkness. If we need darkness, let us continue the way we are going now. Let’s continue to say they should reverse the tariff, let’s continue to steal energy, let’s continue to vandalise gas pipelines, let’s continue not paying our bills.”
“I enjoin us to look at the issues in the sector. Inappropriate tariff leads to shortfalls and that leads to funding gaps which has risen above N300billion.
The 11 Discos through the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) has said that government’s MDAs owed about N93 billion in unpaid electricity bills over the years.
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The Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, ANED, Sunday Oduntan, who briefed the media on the challenges facing the industry said that the industry revenue shortfall is massive and growing to the tune of N300 billion.
Briefing journalists on the updates of their operations and the challenges they face, Oduntan said that by the end of April, 2016, MDAs’ debts stood at a total of N78.6 billion with the military being the highest debtor at N38.7 billion.
He further appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to also prevail on the Nigerian Army to stop assaulting the Discos staff over electricity supply, while lamenting a particular incident which occurred on the 6th of March, 2015, where an Army Major from the 33 Artillery Brigade in Ogun State, allegedly led other officers to the control room to brutalise a staff working at the injection substation.
