Nigeria: Democratising Electricity Regulation for Nigerian Consumers

opinion

One of the observable gaps in the current electricity market in Nigeria is the absence of knowledgeable, credible, and broad-based advocacy for electricity consumers. This is not to say there are no geographical or occupational clusters of electricity consumers, or even non-governmental organisations advocating for their own interests or the interests of their members or the interests of aggrieved consumers that contact them. Of course, such groups exist. The fact is that consumer voice is under-represented in the emergent electricity market.

The reasons for this deficit of consumer voice and power are that the individual consumers and consumer groups are too dispersed and too fragmented and their levels of engagement too superficial, too adversarial and too episodic to have the desired impact on outcomes in the sector.

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