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Lagosians To Continue Paying Old Electricity Tariffs till October 18, As FG Extends Suspension

by Chinonso Ihekire
October 12, 2020
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Lagosians are to continue paying the old electricity tariffs till October 18, a week extension from the previous deadline for the tariff hike suspension issued by the Federal Government.

Chairman, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Prof. James Momoh, said this, today, during a bilateral meeting between Federal Government and Organised Labour, in Abuja.

Recall that the new tariff was earlier suspended for two weeks and ended at midnight on Oct. 11, when the organised labour suspended the planned industrial action over agitation on the hike in electricity tariff on Sept. 28.

It would also be recalled that the committee which was Chaired by Mr. Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour is to examine the justifications for the new policy in view of the need for the validation of the basis for the new cost reflective tariff.

Momoh while speaking, said the one week extension on the new tariff was to enable the committee to review and work out modalities for the implementation of the agreement reached on the electricity tariffs structure.

Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, while reading a resolution reached between the Federal Government, Organised Labour and the Ad Hoc Technical Committee on Electricity Tariff said that adoption of the work plan for effecting the resolutions has been reached.

Ngige said the resolutions adopted would be implemented by all stakeholders within the week by Sunday, Oct. 18.

According to him, the amendments to the resolutions that were adopted include, phase one immediate reliefs.

“Using of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) VAT proceeds to provide relief in electricity tariff. This is to leverage on the VAT from the NESI, the increases experienced by customers due to the transition to the Service Based Tariff will be reduced.

“That is, Band A – 10 per cert reduction, Band B – 10.5 per cert reduction and Band C – 31 reduction,” he said.

On the acceleration of National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), he said it was adopted, that for the distribution of the first one million meters, the Ministry of Power was to liaise with Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA).

He added that they are to start work by Oct. 12, to accelerate the roll out of meters with a target of December 2020.

The minister, therefore said that the meeting agreed that it would work towards bridging the metering gap.

“The Federal Government committed to provide six million meters and NERC is expected to compel the DISCOs to meet the metering needs of the customers, “he said.

Ngige also said that on the resolution adopted for the Local procurement of Meters for National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), organised Labour would work with government to improve and ramp up local production capacity.

He also said that the resolution adopted on salary protection for electricity workers was that NERC should ensure that the personnel costs of electricity workers should be placed on first-line charge on the Primary Collection Account.

He added that the process would commence from Monday, Oct.  12.

“On the issue of mandatory refund for any overbilling during system transition by the DISCOs that NERC should implement immediately within October.

‘While on the freezing of customer band migration during the interim period, the revised NERC order will include specific guidelines on freezing band migration,” he said.

Ngige also noted that the resolutions adopted for Phase two for the extensive review of key sector reforms include that the ad hoc committee would work from Oct. 12 to Dec. 12, to ensure that all outstanding issues are resolved and implemented.

He also said the resolution adopted on gas pricing was that the Group Managing Director was co-opted into the Technical Committee to assist with the purpose.

He added that on resource capacity, the Managing Director, NEMSA is also co-opted into the Technical Committee to work with NERC on the metering assignments.

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