{"id":116068,"date":"2025-01-21T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=116068"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T18:41:21","slug":"power-ministrys-n8bn-budget-for-electricity-bill-sensitisation-is-wastefulness-corruption-nlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/power-ministrys-n8bn-budget-for-electricity-bill-sensitisation-is-wastefulness-corruption-nlc\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Ministry\u2019s N8bn budget for electricity bill sensitisation is wastefulness, corruption \u2014 NLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has rejected the proposed use of N8 billion to sensitise consumers on how to pay electricity bill, describing it as the height of profligacy, wastefulness, corruption.<\/p>\n<p>NLC also blamed perceived incompetent headship of the Ministry of Power and National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, for the unending grid collapses.<\/p>\n<p>The union lamented that National Grid has collapsed under this Minister more than all the previous ministers in the history of Nigeria combined.<\/p>\n<p>Labour made its views known in a statement titled \u201cBEFORE THE POWER SECTOR COLLAPSES: N8 BILLION BUDGET FOR ELECTRICITY BILL SENSITIZATION IS ASHAMEFUL TESTAMENT TO INCOMPETENCE AND WASTEFULNESS\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>NLC equally demanded for a comprehensive audit of the entire power sector budget and others to unearth other potential avenues for corruption and financial recklessness.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement by its President, Joe Ajaero, NLC challenged the power minister to tell Nigerians how much dividend it has received from the DISCOs and other privatised entities since the last 12 years of privatisation in lieu of its 40 percent ownership of the privatized entities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NLC in the statement, \u201cWe will continue to monitor developments in this regard and will not hesitate to mobilise against any attempt to use the budget process as a vehicle for waste and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsking for N8 billion to teach us how to pay bills to DISCOs owned by private entities is entirely questionable and speaks to the deeper worries of Nigerians as to the distinction between those in government and those who bought the electricity companies.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has rejected the proposed use of N8 billion to sensitise consumers on how to pay electricity bill, describing it as the height of profligacy, wastefulness,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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