The Technical Specialist, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), Mr. Akin Akinpelu, has given an insight into why the upper class of Nigerians enjoy more power supply than the less privileged.
Akinpelu said that the electricity distribution companies otherwise known as DisCos are in for the business, saying that power supply is not longer a social service.
He, however, declared that any community that was ready to pay for its power consumption would be adequately supplied electric.
Akinpelu said: “If you have a place that you can sell your goods for N1, 000 and you are paid that amount, and another where you send the same goods to for N20 and you end up collecting N1, which would you settle for?
“ This is a business and no longer a social service. So, what are you going to do? Any community that is showing they can pay for what we are giving them, we give them supply and collect our money.
“ The Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc is giving us invoice everyday and it is charging the Discos interest on what they own. We cannot push interest to the consumers.
“So, you see the imbalance in this system. Yes, we want to give everybody power, but we want to give power to people who can pay, and that is the truth”.
