Nigeria: Electricity Tariff Increase and the Big Lie, By Jibrin Ibrahim

The original sin was the mode of privatisation of the Nigerian electricity sector.

The problem is that everybody in this country knows that this is a lie and no sector of society regularly gets a minimum of 20 hours of electricity a day. You cannot build a new policy on lies and such a huge price increase in the middle of the most severe cost of living crisis in Nigerian history; it cannot stand. The new tariff is also aimed at eliminating the annual electricity subsidies of NGN1.14 trillion, we…