Veteran Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw has slammed Federal Government for dividing electricity consumers into different bands.
Gatekeepers News reports that the actress expressed her displeasure through a post on her official X handle on Wednesday, saying it is unprecedented and unfair.
The actress noted that Nigeria is the only country that places electricity consumers in different categories.
She further urged the government to let everyone qhave access to electricity and pay fairly for their consumption.
Kate posted, “Nowhere, absolutely nowhere in the world, is there this purported ‘banding’ of electricity supply.
“Give everyone access to electricity and let them pay fairly for their consumption. Yet, every 2 to 3 months, there is an increase in tariff!! Daylight robbery in darkness.”
The post was in response to journalist Olive Modi’s stance on Nigeria’s epileptic power supply.
The journalist had compared living in Nigeria to a toxic relationship where something always goes wrong.
Modi said, “The question is what exactly is going on sometime in April 2024, the electricity companies classified electricity distribution into different bands from band A to band E, with band A having the most frequent supply of power and also having to pay the most, while some other people are complaining about not even having power at all, even though they are paying exorbitantly for it.”
“On the third of April, the government approved an increase in the electricity tariff for customers under the band A classification. Living in Nigeria feels like some sort of toxic form of relationship where you constantly expect something to go wrong.”
