Ex-Army officer, Captain Casmir Nwafor (rtd.) has promised to sponsor a bill to criminalize the estimated electricity billing in Nigeria on the floor of the Federal of the House of Representatives if elected a member come 2019.
Captain Nwafor who is seeking to represent the people of Orumba North/South Federal Constituency in the lower chamber made this known in a statement he issued in Oko, Anambra State.
He recalled that Nigerians all over the country have been subjected to various forms of cheating due to the weakness and inefficiency of some of her institutions saying that this cheating emanated from cheating in open markets to the communication and cable TV companies where the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) and the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) have proved their “uselessness” to satisfaction.
According to him,” The king of this cheating however is the various electricity distribution countries in Nigeria especially in the South East of Nigeria. Most of the inhabitants of this area especially in Orumba North and South LGAs of Anambra State rarely get electricity supply up to 5 full days in a month, yet they are visited with heavy electricity bills at the end of each month.
“How else can this wicked act be described if it is not a crime against the citizens of this country and my constituents? In the Punch newspaper of 22 April, 2018, National Electricity Regulatory Commission stated that it will need N200 billion to meter 4 million customers. However, it’s no news that millions of households in the SE have paid not less than N25, 000 each for yet to be supplied prepaid meters.
“One therefore wonders why the various electricity companies did not utilize those monies to acquire the meters for the customers. More so, when the money already collected is far above N500 billion. It therefore follows that these companies enjoys exploitation and cheating of the masses unless something urgent and drastic is done to stop this day light robbery.
“It is therefore my agenda that if elected into the House of Representatives, to sponsor a Bill making it a criminal offence by any electricity distribution company to issue an estimated bill to any of its customers”.
Nwafor who is also a legal luminary however added that,” The companies will be given a 6 months grace period from the date of signing of the Bill into Law to comply or face the music. This country must be sanitized to make it impossible for criminally minded businessmen to rip off the masses. We shall retake our land and its treasures. Let us join hands to make this country work again”.
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