Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - The Federal Ministry of Power is proposing to spend N8 billion to orient Nigerians on prompt payment of electricity bills in 2025.
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, disclosed this while defending
the ministry’s budget before the National Assembly joint committee on power on
Monday, January 13.
According to Adelabu, the advocacy would be done through social, digital
and print mediums in order to reach all Nigerians. Adelabu explained that
many Nigerians need orientation to realise that the power sector is a national
asset that needs protection.
“We are a people of over 200 million strength. So we need to go through
all the loopholes, through social media, through digital media, through the
print media, to actually orientate and do this advocacy. So we have N8 billion.
In terms of advocacy, we believe that our people need to be re-educated.
They need to be re-orientated to know that the power assets are national
assets, and we should all jointly own it.
Our people need to know that they should avoid power theft. When they
see something, they must say something. Our people need to know that they must
pay their bills regularly. All these need to be passed across. We believe that
the power sector needs to do a lot of advocacy, re-orientation and re-education
of our people'' Adelabu said
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