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NUEE Faults Injection Of N3trln Into Power Firms By FG

.....seeks review of privatization

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January 6, 2023
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Abuja – The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), has faulted injection of over N3 trillion into the electricity companies by the Federal Government.

The organisation was particularly piqued by the action because the companies were owned by individuals .

The Secretary General of National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), Comrade Joe Ajaero,conveyed his union’s position on Thursday,during the public hearing on a bill to amend Electric Power Sector Reform Act, 2005.

The proposed amendment is seeking to provide the legal and institutional framework for the implementation and coordination of Rural Electrification Projects, establishment of the National Power Training Institute and Regulatory provisions to strengthen the sector for efficient service delivery and for related matters.

It lamented that the government had continued to inject funds into the entities without commensurate increase in power distribution to consumers in the last 10 years.

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Ajaero ,who argued that the privatisation has further compounded the economic woes, maintained that the privatisation policy was designed to fail from the onset.

According to him,there has not been meaningful improvement or contribution by the current investors 9 years after privatization and 17 years after the Electric Power Sector Reform Act, 2005 was signed into law.

He emphasized the need to review the entire privatization exercise.

“Our position on privatization is clear, but we are worried whether the amendments are critically based on market private- public where we belong now.

Having tried privatization for 10 years, and we are doing just the amendment of sections of the act and even the review provision in the act which gives provision for the review of the sector after five years and we have written consistently and it has not happened.

“This Act, are we really obeying it? If there is provision for review after five years, and Nigerians are groaning, consistently Nigerians are complaining and we say privatization was based on the fact that government doesn’t have any business in it and government is pumping in money to an individuals business.

“As we speak now, almost N3 trillion has been pumped into the power sector which wasn’t there when it was owned by the government.

“So what’s the logic to say Government has no business in business and government now has to pump and fund the business of another man. And we need to sit down and see what is working for us.

“That is why we came here to say the laws we made by ourselves, we can pause and look at it and move on. Since nobody has to talk about reversion of privatization, but let’s us see how it can ft us.

“As we are speaking today, the issue of tariffs is on, if government is pumping in trillions and Nigerians are being compelled to pay, you can see what is happening, the country is suffering.

“If you put two trillion (naira) in the economy of Nigeria today it will thrive, but it is being pumped into business owned by individuals.

“Let’s look at. What is the cost benefit analysis of this if we have to take our money,and go and check the records, for about 10 years before privatization, government didn’t put ten percent that money into the sector but it’s putting it now.

“For another 10 years no increase in generation, no conscious master plan, there is no plan in the country that by next year power plant will come into the system.

None for the next two years nor three years for power generation to be constant, at 4,000 Megawatt, and demand will continue to increase because more houses will be built, connect on and on.

“So if this is reduced to public hearing and no action is taken further on how to make the system work, and Nigeria is still at the bottom of countries suffering power poverty all over the world.

“The normal concept is one million people to one thousand Megawatt, and we have a country of 200 million people with 4 to 5 thousand Megawatt, nobody is talking about it.

“During the Babangida era there was feasibility study on Mambila which had the capability of giving what we are having in this country today and from that period till now nothing has happened. The same thing with Zungeru.

“The union doesn’t want to bask in the euphoria of the Act/law which does not provide one Megawatt to the system. The union doesn’t want to bask in the euphoria of having 19 companies, 19 MD’s and ED’s on 4,000 Megawatts.

“The company that was owned by one ED before will now multiply. The multiplication of 19 successor companies did not add one Megawatt. So what’s the honest sense of sweeping in 200 companies knowing the generation is constant,” Comrade Ajaero noted.

In a bid to address myriad of challenges facing the industry, Ajaero underscored the need for review of shareholding of the industry.

“The option of government controlling 60 per cent shares of the facilities as against the present 40% (inclusive of the negotiated 10% equity shareholding for staff in line with the Laws setting up the National Council on privatization (NCP) is imminent as the Private Sector Operators have clearly shown lack of capacity to construct a simple Power Plant since the last 9 years.

“Besides, the Federal Government has continued to fund the Sector. Available statistics shows that about N400 billion was realized from the privatization of the Power sector with the Federal Government investing over one trillion thereafter,” he added.(PremiumNews)

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