Electricity Consumers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), want the new Minister of Power, Mr Adebayo Adelabu to overhaul the power sector to ensure stable power supply.
The consumers who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday said that overhauling the sector would improve power supply.
Mr Kunle Olubiyo, the President, Nigeria Consumer Protection Network said that the minister should do a surgical overhaul of the regulatory institutions and ecosystem of the power sector.
According to him, the minister should do an appraisal of the performances of all agencies in the last 10 years using benchmarks of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Olubiyo also urged Adelabu to engage the best hands as advisers and working team to enable him to achieve the Federal Government’s desire to give its citizens a stable and uninterrupted power supply.
Speaking on other tasks before the minister, he urged him to drive the process of the long overdue review of the sector’s privatisation.
The minister said that 10 years after the privatisation, the exercise had failed to deliver the desired results.
He said that the review should be done across the value chain of the electricity sector from generation, and transmission to distribution.
“By so doing, issues relating to increased expansion of the huge metering gaps, sector liquidity challenges and poor remittances culture, load rejection will be addressed. (NAN)
