The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has told Nigeria’s Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) that the Federal Government will not succumb its ‘blackmail’.
Fashola said this while reacting to DisCos claim that Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) was owing them some outstanding debts.
The former Governor in a statement by his Special Adviser on Communication, Hakeem Bello stated that DisCos have so far failed to provide details of such debts for verification.
Fashola said: “Let me say without any equivocation that government will not succumb to the blackmail, at least not the Federal Government of Nigeria”.
He said that government had provided an online platform where it requested all the DisCos to submit details of their debts to that platform for government to verify it.
“I think that advert should have told Nigerians how many DisCos have complied with that instruction. That advert should also have told Nigerians how much was owed and to which DisCo. So while I respect the rights of association, indeed our constitution allows freedom of association.
“But the Nigeria government will not pay its debts estimated to be about N100 billion under the aegis of an association. That is not how to resolve debts, every DisCo knows how much power it supplied. Debts are not calculated by estimates. It is either N100 billion or less than N100 billion but not an estimate”.
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