The
Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture
(NACCIMA) has called for the cancellation of electricity tariff fixed charge to
consumers in the country.
The
National President of NACCIMA, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar, made this call in a
parley with newsmen on the review of the state of the nation in the year 2014,
saying, in the face of present epileptic power supply in the country, the
chamber consider the electricity tariff fixed charge of between N750 and N1,
500 based on Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO)2 Retail Tariffs (Residential) to be
too high for the average Nigerians who earn very low income and therefore urged
that there should be no fixed charge to consumers.
“Similarly,
