According to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Nigeria has a total of 8, 310, 408 registered active electricity customers. As criticisms continued to trail it, the Federal Government came up with the NNMP to justify the increase in electricity tariff. In the MAP scheme, the cost of meters, which was initially shouldered by the DisCos, was transferred to consumers. I still insist that the minister of power doesn’t know anything about the power sector, and he is just there frustrating the sector. “Don’t give us money; give us bank guarantee, and you will see that meters will be supplied without any hitch.

Source: The Guardian April 18, 2021 04:47 UTC