The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has registered it resolve to tackle corruption-related matters arising from estimated billings, illegal selling of meters and other offences in the electricity sector.
The commission noted that the incessant complaints about high billings by power regulators were becoming rife.
The Chairman of ICPC, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye (SAN), who made this at a consultation meeting of business membership organisations and electricity regulatory bodies.
The ICPC spokesman, Azuka Ogugua, said in a statement on Friday that the meeting was organised by the Association of Public Policy Analysis in Abuja.
The statement titled, ‘ICPC to tackle corruption in electricity sector, says ICPC chairman,’ said Owasanoye was represented by an Assistant Commissioner in the commission, Mallam Hassan Salihu.
He called on non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations and electricity regulatory bodies to join hands in preventing electricity-related corruption in the country.
The statement said, “Professor Owasanoye further stated that the commission was empowered by its enabling law to carry out system studies and review in government agencies and departments to mitigate the occurrence of corrupt activities in such organisations.”
The Director-General of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, Dikko Radda, is represented by Mrs Olabanjo Fowler, an Assistant Director, Partnership and Coordination, said that it was the responsibility of SMEDAN to formulate and implement policies that would ensure the ease of doing business to make MSMEs competitive in the global market.
