The Govt Director of the Affiliation of Nigerian Electrical energy Distributors, Sunday Oduntan, says the Nigerian authorities owes about N100 billion in excellent electrical energy debt.
He disclosed this in an interview with Come up TV on Sunday.
He identified that the latest cost of money owed by the presidential villa to the Abuja Electrical energy Distribution Firm might have been averted had the federal government been well timed in settling its electrical energy payments.
“I stated all of us have to pay our half. On the a part of the federal government, all the time attempt to create an enabling surroundings for companies to try. All the time play your half by paying your invoice.
“It’s solely two or three weeks in the past that information went viral that the Nigeria presidential villa was owing electrical energy invoice. This invoice was not paid till Abuja DisCo put up an advert that caught the eye of the President.
“You may be stunned to seek out some ministries owing Abuja Disco. The ministries, departments and businesses are owing, in essence, N100 billion.
“We’ve been saying this for a very long time. They didn’t begin owing from Might 2023. So there is no such thing as a politics or mischief right here. We’re speaking about details and the way we will clear up issues,” he stated.
Final month, reporter reported that the Presidential Villa and 85 different ministries, departments and businesses below the federal and state governments owe the Abuja Electrical energy Distribution Firm, AEDC N47,195 billion.
In the meantime, shortly after AEDC’s disconnection discover over unsettled electrical energy money owed, Tinubu ordered the cost.
reporter recollects that previously two months, electrical energy shoppers in Nigerians have continued to groan over the epileptic energy provide.
