The Chairman Senate Committee on Transport, Sen Abdulfatai Buhari, has hinted that the Senate would stop the recent electricity tariff increment.
Sen Buhari who dropped this hint at the weekend while answering questions from newsmen said that it will be improper for the electricity distribution companies to just wake up one day and announce increment in the electricity tariff without commensurable supply.
The Senator representing Oyo North Senatorial District stressed that the issue of tariff increments by the DISCOs will be one of the issues the national assembly particularly the Senate will look into when Senators resume from recess.
He said, “This is where the Consumer Protection Council will have to come in. You can’t just wake up in the morning and increase electricity tariff. So, the CPC has to come in heavily on them. If they refuse, some of us, when we go back to the National Assembly, we will raise a motion and stop them.
“The money is not there. Even the electricity they are increasing the tariff, the price is not commensurate with what they are giving us. In my house, before the increment, I normally use 20,000 in a month. Now, the 20,000 card is the one I used in a week. You will use the 20,000 in one week. It is going like air. And it should be pay as you use. Like DSTV, we are trying to block them that look, pay as you view is the sensible thing. They will resist it, but, the moment we have the support of the masses particularly the press, it makes our job over there easy. It makes it very easy.”
