The senate has on Wednesday, passed the electricity bill meant to improve the utilisation of generated power.
Nigeria has for years been bedeviled by poor power generation, transmission and distribution, a situation which successive governments have not been able to change.
But Senator Gabriel Suswam , chairman of the senate committee on power ,in his presentation on the floor of the senate said the bill’s objective is to amongst others, provide an Ideal legal and institutional framework to leverage the modest gains of the privatisation phase of the electric power sector in Nigeria.
He said the bill would “reinvigorate the Institutional framework for the reform of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry initiated and implemented by the Federal Government.”
He also said the provisions of the bill include promoting policies and regulatory measures that would ensure the expansion of power transmission networks in Nigeria in order to address any imbalance in the existing transmission infrastructure.