Nigerians will leave their freezer on for days even when everything is
frozen because they are not paying too much - Minister of powerAdebayo
Adelabu, has slammed Nigerians who indiscriminately leave their houses
to go to work and other places with their refrigerators and air
conditioners on.Lamenting Nigerians’ culture of power consumption
management due to its affordability in the country, the minister said,
“A lot of people will come back from work, they want to have dinner, or
they want to see their colleagues down the road, they switch on the AC
for the room to be cooling before they come back.“Some people will be
going to work in the morning, a freezer that you left on for days, they
will still leave it on when all the items in the freezer are frozen and
5, 6, 8 hours of their absence will not make it to defreeze, they will
still leave it to be consuming power just because we are not paying
enough.”The minister disclosed this in Abuja on Friday while briefing
journalists about the recent increase in electricity tariff by the
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.The son of prominent First
Republic politician, Adegoke Adelabu, said Nigerians lack consumption
management because electricity is cheap in the country.He was appointed a
deputy governor, operations of the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2014 by
former President Goodluck Jonathan.The minister said, “The bitter truth
we all need to tell ourselves as Nigerians. A few people are just
privileged to sit on the high table. We’re on the same level, we must be
able to tell the truth to ourselves.“We have all been overseas before;
we know how conscious the power consumers are about electricity
consumption,” he added.The minister had also, in the briefing, asked
Nigerians to expect more increase in electricity tariff of customers
under other bands after the NERC increased that of Band A.
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