The Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, has expressed worry over the refusal of electricity consumers in the country, especially in the South-South geopolitical zone of the country, to pay their bills.
Chairman of the committee, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, disclosed this yesterday when he led members of the committee on an oversight visit to the headquarters of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) in Port Harcourt.
Abaribe said, “The problem is that even where you have meters, people bypass the meters. Not only do they bypass the meters, people go on to refuse to pay for the power consumed. That of course is attributed to some sense of entitlement that people have around here that they produce oil, they produce gas and therefore, why should they pay for power.