The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, has insisted that some Nigerians get at least 20 hours of supply amid the recent electricity tariff hike.


Sunday Oduntan, the Executive Director of ANED, disclosed this in an interview on Channels Television on Saturday.

Recall that on Tuesday last week, the federal government approved a tariff increase for Band A customers getting at least 20 hours of power supply.


Justifying the hike, Oduntan said electricity customers across the 11 electricity Distribution Companies are served 20-24 hours.

He said the hike affects only the rich in Nigeria, not the poor.

“I am a customer of two discos; when I am in Abeokuta, Egba land, I am not on Band A but Band D, so I get less than 8 hours.


“When I am in Abuja, I live in Sunny City Estate. It is never less than 20 hours per day, I have lived there for ten years.

“NERC should be commended for having the courage to look at the true cost of electricity. What they have done is to remove subsidies for 15 per cent of electricity customers. Why should we be subsidizing electricity for a man, for instance, with Royce rolls?” He queried.

NERC had announced that 481 feeders across the 11 Discos are currently in Band A, and customers are getting at least 20 hours of power supply.

Meanwhile, Nigerians have condemned the tariff hike.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, Lagos Chambers of Commerce, Abuja Chambers of Commerce, and other organizations had, in separate statements, kicked against the new tariff increase.

However, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, in a briefing on Friday, said the government would save 52 per cent on electricity subsidies following the tariff hike for 15 per cent of electricity customers.

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The man is a bloody liar.

kokoA:
The man is a bloody liar.

He said some. Not all or everyone

For more lies, sms Disco to 419

Not all Band A get 20hrs electricity supply. The man should stop lying.

If you live at Agbara/Iya Isashi/Igbo-Elerin axis, abeg una dey enjoy light o!! You guys dunno what interrupted power supply is. Na una dey enjoy light for the whole Nigeria.

nairalanda1:


He said some. Not all or everyone

Even that some is a lie. Suncity where he claims he resides when he is in Abuja is a stone throw from my estate. I won't say power supply is very bad here though but it is no where near 20 - 24 hrs, I can say an average of 10 hours.

nairalanda1:


He said some. Not all or everyone

Na still lie.

Majority of the areas in Band A are not even using up to 10 hours light in a day

Which 20 hours supply here. We last have light last week Tuesday in our area in Lagos. So who are they deceiving?

24hrs kill the Discos there. 24hrs Wey heat won kill people.

We are only paying for darkness in nigeria.

A huge lie.

What a embarrassing lie! Nigeria suffers from power blackouts as its more than 200 million people rely on grid electricity of less than 4,000 megawatts from an installed capacity of 13,000 megawatts despite an abundance of gas and hydro capabilities. In contrast, South Africa with a population that’s almost a third the size of Nigeria’s has about 52,000 megawatts of capacity.

In his new year’s speech, Tinubu promised to fix the power supply that has been bedeviled by patchy revenue collection and a dilapidated national grid that has left most residents to produce their own electricity using noisy generators.

Both increases will likely weigh on an already constrained consumer and hamper the central bank’s efforts to rein in inflation in the West African country, where about 40% of the population live in extreme poverty." Wicked people full this contraption of a country.

some he said not most

In Akure we enjoy light from 12am to 4 :30 am daily. We are really enjoying