The Federal Government says it should begin subsidising electrical energy in universities and well being establishments below Band A feeders.
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu disclosed this on Saturday when he appeared on a programme aired by totally different radio stations in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Adelabu, nonetheless, mentioned the federal government wouldn’t subsidise personal companies working in these universities and hospitals.
After the Federal Government eliminated subsidies from prospects categorised as Band A and upgraded their day by day electrical energy provide to a minimal of 20 hours day by day, universities and public hospitals cried out that their payments had skyrocketed.
Recently, the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital cried out over what they described as an outrageous electrical energy invoice charged by the Eko Electricity Distribution Company for May.
The establishments mentioned they had been collectively introduced with a invoice of about N280m for May as an alternative of the lower than N100m they used to pay.
The month-to-month invoice given to UNILAG jumped from N180m to N300m.
The Federal University of Technology, Akure had its invoice raised from N20m to N60m by the Ibadan DisCo.
At the University of Benin, the tariff was hiked from N80m month-to-month to N250m.
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The Vice-Chancellor of Babcock University, Ogun State, Prof. Ademola Tayo, mentioned in July that the establishment paid N300m as electrical energy tariff in May, lamenting that the excessive electrical energy tariff was an awesome risk to high quality training in Nigeria.
Speaking of this, the minister mentioned the federal government is conscious that universities and hospitals are having challenges paying the payments.
“We know they’re improvement establishments, they’re social establishments. However, inside well being and academic establishments, personal companies are hiding. These individuals cost their prospects commercially and so they anticipate to be subsidised as a result of they’re situated throughout the territories of those establishments.
“We said no, go and do a proper search and meter everybody. For the ones that are properly health and education-related, we are ready to subsidise them, even if they are on Band A. We are compiling our data, DisCos will collect a certain amount and the government will pay the balance. But we must get the data right so that we are not subsidising a private business that is charging its customers commercially. That will be an abnormal profit and it is unfair,” he acknowledged.