A senior lawyer, Femi Falana, has called on state governments to challenge the laws restricting them from generating electricity in their states.
Mr. Falana made the call in Lagos on Wednesday at the launch of a report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, titled “From Darkness to Darkness: How Nigerians are paying the price for corruption in the electricity sector.” The programme was supported by the MacArthur Foundation.
Mr. Falana said state governments must begin to exercise their constitutional rights by challenging the control of electricity generation, distribution and transmission by the federal government.
According to him, “Items 13 and 14 of the schedule to the constitution stipulate that state government shall have power to generate electricity outside the national grid.
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Generate, distribute your own electricity, Falana challenges state govts
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