Nigerians have reacted to the huge amount of money used by the Federal Government to subsidise electricity, advising the government to remove the subsidy in exchange for prepaid meters. Nigerians who engaged the report on Tribune online social media platforms expressed their displeasure at the huge amount of money spent on electricity. Please remove it and give prepaid meters to everyone. spending this amount of money as subsidy is a scam, because 70% of Nigerians are not enjoying 15 days 24hrs light, these moneys needs to be investigated”, @Saidu Salisu reacted. Another Facebook user, @Adewunmi Isaac Opeyemi commented, “Spent 700bn on electricity yet NEPA office is using generator 🙄🙄🙄.”@Basiru Uba in agreement with the removal of the electricity subsidy reacted, “Remove it we don’t die.”A twitter user also said:This should no longer be sustained.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 16, 2024 13:11 UTC