This is actually funny but the Federal ministry of power is proposing to spend N8 billion to orient Nigerians on the need for prompt payment of electricity bills in the year 2025. This was disclosed by the Minister of power, Adebayo Adelabu while he was defending the ministry's budget before the national Assembly joint committee on Monday, January 13.
The Minister mentioned that the advocacy would be done through social, digital and print media for the purpose of reach as many Nigerians as possible. He mentioned that the advocacy is important so as to realise that the power sector is a natural asset that needs protection.
He said, " 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"
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