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The House of Representative has said it would not hesitate to repeal and re-enact or amend some sections of the laws that govern the power industry after listening to the complaints of consumers of electricity nationwide
Isreal Ajibola Famurewa disclosed this yesterday in Lagos while presiding over a meeting organised between electricity consumers and electricity distribution companies and other stakeholders in the south west zone of the country.
Isreal Famurewa who is the chairman, Adhoc committee on complaints by electricity consumers said that the House of Representative has been under immense pressure to act against the electricity distribution companies because of complaints arising from given crazy bill or estimated bills, refusal to meter consumers and manipulation of installation of meters in their areas of operations.
According to him, the meeting is starting from because of the unique position of the state which harbours two electricity distribution companies and the fact that it is the gate way to international transactions and that any information gathered from Lagos could be taking as good representative of the general situation in the industry.
He said the House has received a lot of complaints from their constituents, Nigerians complaining about the poor services being rendered by the electricity distribution companies across the country, adding that it has gotten to a stage that if the house does intervene consumers it may lead to breaking of law and order.
He said the House in its wisdom constituted the committee to interface with consumers,Disco and the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) so that lasting solution can be found in resolving the lingering problems in the sector.
He said at the end of the exercise which will take them to the six geopolitical zones in the country a report would be presented to the committee of the whole House. “We are going to look at the laws that guide the sector holistically so that if need be to repeal some law and re-enact we would do, if need to amend some laws, we would do”.
Atleas we are representative of the people and we must protect their interest and also make sure their right is adequately protected
At the meeting the general consensus of the consumers was that the Discos should make available either prepaid meters or functional analogue meters to everybody and stop given consumers crazy bill
