The Federal Ministry of Power plans to allocate N8 billion in 2025 to educate Nigerians on the importance of prompt electricity bill payments.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, during the ministry’s budget defense before the National Assembly’s joint committee on power on Monday.
The advocacy campaign aims to leverage social, digital, and print media to reach Nigeria’s population of over 200 million.
“We are a people of over 200 million strength. So we need to go through all the loopholes, through social media, through digital media, through the print media, to actually orientate and do this advocacy. So we have N8 billion,” he said.
Mr Adelabu explained that many Nigerians need orientation to realise that the power sector is a national asset that needs protection.
He also identified the need to avoid power theft as another reason for the advocacy.
“In terms of advocacy, we believe that our people need to be re-educated. They need to be re-orientated to know that the power assets are national assets, and we should all jointly own it.
“Our people need to know that they should avoid power theft. When they see something, they must say something,” he added.
“Our people need to know that they must pay their bills regularly. All these need to be passed across. We believe that the power sector needs to do a lot of advocacy, re-orientation and re-education of our people,” Mr Adelabu said.