NIGERIA’s electricity sector breeds anger. The citizens are frustrated that despite the sale of national assets to private businesses, electricity supply in the country seems to be going from the ridiculous to the horrible and, to make it worse, they are billed for electricity that is not supplied. The government is livid with the electricity distribution companies for their inability to live up to the agreement of improving energy distribution, while the electricity distribution companies (Discos) are enraged that after investing billions of naira to buy the outfits, they are neither able to do as much as they would want nor able to generate as much as they should on their investments.
Indeed, so awful is the electricity distribution situation in the country that the government once called on the Disco operators to quit if they could not deliver. A prompt response from the…
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