A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Wadata Media and Advocacy Centre (WAMAC), has challenged Nigerians, particularly electricity consumers, to join the fight against corruption in the power sector of the country.
At a Townhall meeting held at the weekend in Akure, the Ondo state capital, WAMAC, with the support of the MacArthur Foundation, decried how the electricity distribution companies (Discos) in the country had been defrauding Nigerians through “estimated billings and metering manipulations.”
The group noted that since the privatization of the electricity sector in the year 2014, the new helmsmen of the Electricity Distribution Companies have “crowned themselves emperors and untouchable” by short-changing consumers.
Addressing the participants at the Townhall meeting,Daily Trust reports that the group’s Executive Director/Project Manager, Mr Zubair Abdurra’uf Idris, said service delivery in Nigeria has been generally on leap service state due to ‘monumental corruption’ mostly in the electricity sector.
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