• Group flays frequent national grid collapse
Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has said the increase in electricity tariffs is not only insensitive but smacks of disregard by government for the plight of Nigerians.
PRP, through its National Publicity Secretary, Muhammed Ishaq, called on the authorities to reconsider the decision.
The party noted that the current economic situation demanded empathy, understanding, and a collective effort to uplift the people, not policies that push them deeper into hardship.
It urged the authorities to explore alternative solutions that would not further exacerbate the suffering of Nigerians.
“Government should consider investing seriously in the exploration and expansion of alternative renewable sources of electricity supply, such as solar, bio gas, wind, among others, which have the potential of providing cheap and sustainable electric energy to Nigerians for their domestic, economic and industrial needs.
“The removal of fuel subsidies has already made life unbearable for Nigerians and the additional burden of a 300 per cent increase in electricity tariffs is a merciless and ruthless policy at a time when the majority of the population is struggling to meet their basic needs like food. It is unimaginable that the government would impose such life-frustrating policies on a nation that is already on its knees,” PRP said:
MEANWHILE, National Civil Society Council of Nigeria (NCSCN) has decried frequent collapse of Nigeria’s national power grid and called on President Bola Tinubu to end corruption and inefficiency in the system.
At a media briefing in Abuja, the group’s Executive Director, Blessing Akinlosotu, said Nigerians were facing hardship because of the situation.
Akinlosotu urged the Minister of Power and other stakeholders to suspend the Transmission Company of Nigeria, (TCN), boss, Sule Ahmed-Abdulaziz, over corruption allegations and epileptic supply in the country.
“The state of electricity across the country has become a matter of national emergency with repeated collapse of the national grid and inability to even fully transmit and distribute the very minimal capacity being generated,” he said.
