The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, have threatened to plunge Band A electricity customers in Enugu State into darkness if they pay the N160 per kilowatt-hour as an electricity bill in line with the Enugu Electricity Regulatory Commission Multi-Year-Tariff Order.
Sunday Oduntan, gave the warning on Thursday in an interview with TVC.
His threat comes as EERC in a recent MYTO, mandated MainPower, a subsidiary of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, to reduce its Band A tariff to N160/kWh from N209/kWh.
The announcement had generated mixed reactions in the country’s electricity market.
Reacting, Oduntan urged Band A electricity customers not to be carried away by the announcement.
He emphasised that Band A electricity customers will begin to experience epileptic power supply if they pay the N160 kWh tariff announced by EERC.
“If you are in band A and in Enugu, and they are now asking you to pay N160 per kilowatt-hour, they are deceiving you. At the end of the day, your light will begin to go off. We are talking about cost recovery.
“We are talking about not setting us back to those dark old days. Things are better today because of the issue of liquidity; it was bad in those days due to liquidity,” he said.
Media Talk Africa reports that outside Discos, electricity generation companies had also kicked against EERC’s tariff reduction for Band A customers.
The federal government earlier said it would not recommend Band A electricity tariff removal for states because it is currently grappling to pay electricity debt of over N5 trillion.
Meanwhile, electricity consumers under Electricity Consumer Protection Advocacy have raised doubts over the implementation of EERC’s MYTO on MainPower.
