🇳🇬 Nigeria 15h ago · Emmanuel Okogba

DISCOs should stop preying on consumers

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DISCOs should stop preying on consumers
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The privatisation of Nigeria’s power sector in 2013 was sold as a panacea—a shift from the lethargy of a state-run monopoly to the efficiency of private enterprise. Yet, over a decade later, the average Nigerian finds themselves in a bizarre economic paradox: they are treated as customers when it is time to pay bills, but as venture capitalists when it is time for infrastructure funding.



It is now common to see communities taxed by “utility committees” to procure transformers, alu

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