Falana blasts FG over planned electricity tariff hike

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has criticised the Federal Government’s projected summation successful energy tariffs, insisting that Nigerians should not beryllium made to endure the consequences of years of argumentation failures successful the powerfulness sector.

Speaking with journalists successful Ilawe-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Falana said the authorities indispensable archetypal fulfil its committedness of providing unchangeable and uninterrupted energy earlier considering immoderate tariff hike.

According to him, President Bola Tinubu pledged to amended energy proviso during his campaign, stressing that Nigerians merit reliable powerfulness alternatively than higher bills for mediocre service.

Falana besides faulted what helium described arsenic the government’s effort to region itself from the energy assemblage aft privatising organisation companies, arguing that authorities cannot wantonness citizens to the shortcomings of backstage operators.

The elder advocator alleged that galore owners of energy organisation companies support adjacent ties with authorities officials, informing that specified relationships should not shield the firms from accountability.

He further urged the Federal Government to see taking backmost power of the companies if the existent privatisation statement has failed to present businesslike energy supply.

“The authorities should supply uninterrupted electricity. That was a committedness made by President Bola T...