The Nigeria Senate had a critical talk and review of the progress made after privatization of the Power Sector following a debate and discussions on a motion moved by Senator Dino Melaye (APC Kogi West), entitled “DISCOs, electricity consumers and the burden of over-billing.”

AS the Senate began discussions on the power sector in Nigeria, yesterday, a very gloomy picture was painted by senators who came to the conclusion that there was no hope of Nigeria coming out of its present power crisis.

The Senate, which noted that the power sector was in dire need of emergency response, said Nigerians would not have steady power supply because the distribution companies were bankrupt and could not, therefore, procure meters.

Consequently, the upper chamber asked that the privatisation of the sector be revisited without delay.
Senate chamber

Melaye, in his motion, said the burden of over-billing shouldered by electricity consumers in the country, even in the face of epileptic power supply by Distribution Companies, DISCOs, was totally unacceptable.

He also urged the Senate to mandate the Committee on Power to look into the astronomical electricity billing by DISCOs across the country and asked the Senate to urge the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, to call DISCOS to stop forthwith the practice of estimated billing.

As Daily Electricity Generation rises to 4, 197.50 MW

Melaye had at plenary on Tuesday, promised to present the motion after drawing the attention of senators to the exorbitant estimated billings being forced on consumers by the DISCOs.

In his contribution, Senator Ben Murray- Bruce, PDP, Bayelsa East, made it clear that with the manner the privatisation was carried out, operators in the power sector, such as DISCOs, were in serious difficulty.

Therefore, he recommended that the Senate prevailed on government to revisit the privatisation.

Murray-Bruce, who declared that Nigerians have a catastrophe in their hands as far as the sector was concerned, said those currently running the sector were technically deficient due to a lot of factors not envisaged at the time the privatization was executed.

He said: “They are technically bankrupt, unless we revisit the entire privatization process, unless we understand and dissect what went wrong, we will still get estimated billing.

“We have a catastrophe on our hands, there will be no power in Nigeria until the current structure is reviewed.

“Those who privatised the sector did not imagine that naira will be devalued from N160 to about N400 now. Those who invested in the business thought it was like a company where they will make a lot of money.

‘’I believe they only had enough money to pay the federal government and make the initial investment; they did not have the capacity to run a power sector company in a modern economy.”

In his contribution, Senator Mustapha Bukar, APC, Katsina North, while lamenting the ugly situation of the power sector, said that going by realities on ground in the sector, the country was sitting on an emergency without any sign of immediate solution.

According to him, though the nation has capacity for generation over 12,000mega watts, only 4,000mw have been achieved at any time, out of which 1,800mw are paid for by consumers, making the providers to be in perpetual indebtedness.

Senator Bukar, who is the Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, said: “The problem we have is the inefficiency within the system which we have actually so far not decided to address.

‘’ I will give you a small example: Nigeria has an installed capacity of 12,522 Megawatts of power. We have non-available capacity of 5,300; we have non-operational capacity of 3,180; meaning that the amount that is actually available is just over 4,000 Megawatts out of 12,500.

“We have transmission loss of 228, we have distribution loss of 447 Megawatts. At the end of the day, only 3,800 Megawatts reach the consumer. And we have commercial loss of more than 36 percent.

“So, what is actually being paid for out of the over 3,000 Megawatts is only 1,800 Megawatts. So unless and until we decide to look at these inefficiency within the value chain, there is no way we can have better electricity generation, distribution and also billing system in the country.



http://www.energywatchng.com/no-hope-nigeria-power-sector-senate/

so say who

bewla:
so say who

Ministers of darkness
and agents of suffering
,just imagine the lame excuse they are giving us.I'm sorry for Nigeria.



This government is a failure,this is maladministration.



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EXCUSES! .......the opium and rallying point for failures. a very simple thing every other nation has solved 40yrs ago. still bedevils us in 2017. a country of mediocres

And they have the boldness to say that?

Powerless talkers the the talk active nonsense voice..

Youdondeymad:
Ministers of darkness and agents of suffering ,just imagine the lame excuse they are giving us.I'm sorry for Nigeria.


This government is a failure,this is maladministration.


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Fashola said it ain't rocket science and yet he failed woefully.



I love this part : Melaye, in his motion, said the burden of over-billing shouldered by electricity consumers in the country, even in the face of epileptic power supply by Distribution Companies, DISCOs, was totally unacceptable.

Ppl up dia listen and listen good











Thunder will pick all of una 1 by follow. My anger is it will strike sum ppl late which ever way it will stil una







WHY WILL THUNDER STRIKE US?




Tunder will strike u bcus u biliv dat nigeria will get beta

Now our politicians are starting to be honest

Nigeria is a failed state! Let us all go our separate ways.
SMH!!!

These set can't take this country out of darkness,theres darkness in the land seriously.

I shouted up Nepa during late 80's and I am so sure my Kids too will exp d same scenerio,take a gud look at our neighbouring countries,like Ghana,Benin rep,Togo,burkina Faso etc are eida on constant/steady power supply of 16hrs daily(a case study SENEGAL)
Is dt here in Nigeria,we re so daft dt we can't generate electricity to sustain us b4 thinking of selling outside 1st or we lack competency in d aspect of power generation,abi na ba leader,cos I can't just phantom it again
If we look at d Fortune spent on dis power sector alone,right from 1999-present date,i am so sure it will b enough to generate substantial power from d scratch cos ever since 1983,we av been rovering ard 2000MW-4500MW
Abi,shld we employ/beg d ppu at d helms of affair when nigeria was at 0MW,and build d power to 4,500MW,we re still using up till date,cos those at d helms of affair from 1999_till date re not adding anytin meaningful to our power sector rada they are only maintaining/worsening what deir predecessors left in the power sector

I shouted up Nepa during late 80's and I am so sure my Kids too will exp d same scenerio,take a gud look at our neighbouring countries,like Ghana,Benin rep,Togo,burkina Faso etc are eida on constant/steady power supply of 16hrs daily(a case study SENEGAL)
Is dt here in Nigeria,we re so daft dt we can't generate electricity to sustain us b4 thinking of selling outside 1st or we lack competency in d aspect of power generation,abi na ba leader,cos I can't just phantom it again
If we look at d Fortune spent on dis power sector alone,right from 1999-present date,i am so sure it will b enough to generate substantial power from d scratch cos ever since 1983,we av been hovering ard 2000MW-4500MW
Abi,shld we employ/beg d ppu at d helms of affair when nigeria was at 0MW,and build d power to 4,500MW,we re still using up till date,cos those at d helms of affair from 1999_till date re not adding anytin meaningful to our power sector rada they are only maintaining/worsening what deir predecessors left in the power sector

BoleynDynaSTY:
Fashola said it ain't rocket science and yet he failed woefully.



I love this part : Melaye, in his motion, said the burden of over-billing shouldered by electricity consumers in the country, even in the face of epileptic power supply by Distribution Companies, DISCOs, was totally unacceptable.

I am sure he is not the first to say it. We are tired of hearing words. What is so difficult about this problem that the so-called giant of Africa has yet to find a solution to

If someone calls Nigeria a zoo, Unity beggars will start writhing in pain.

There's no hope for Nigeria, not just for the power sector.

LOL. Why una come dey tell us wetin we know already? Well here's my own news flash:

Y'all are to blame! ! cos y'all have been in power like forever so tell us sump we don't know already like Buharis true health status.

Lol I think Nigerians have long given up on the power sector.

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Just don't know what to type anymore

The clueless one sold the Discos to his cronies. demented people's hero. smh.

When the supposed leaders are telling us no hope and hope is the last thing we have. This is the last straw, me am going to buy inverter to at least power my phone

APshit-
change

I am not surprise though after all the minister of power is as dark as charcoal and we are being ruled by senators without certificate. Oh! I forgot ,even the President presented a NEPA Bill WAEC Result

APC is associated with failure
the only thing filled in their brains is propaganda
they met power at about 4000 mega watts and what do we have today? darkness all over.

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