From KABIR Dankatsina
Kebbi State House of Assembly has passed the electricity regulatory 2024 bill into law yesterday after the Committee on Rural and Community Development chaired by the Speaker of the Assembly, Hon Muhammed Usman Zuru.
Hon Zuru, in report of the committee disclosed that the bill will allow government to establish the Electricity Regulatory Commission for the state in the areas of electricity generation, transmission system operation, distribution, supply and promote access to electricity in the state through increase of private sector investments or public private sector partnerships in grid, mini-grid and other off grid electricity options using renewable and non-renewable fuel sources in the state 2024 and for any purposes connected therewith.
The Speaker also revealed that before it was passed, it went through first and second reading on the floor of the House and later passed on public hearing and submitted to the assembly for deliberation and passed it into law.
Chairman, committee on electricity regulatory bill, Hon Farouq Abubakar Maisudan told Journalists shortly after passing the bill that the committee has studied the bill which comprises of 120 sections and a schedule and in the process of scrutinising the bill, relevant stakeholders were invited for public hearings which was conducted on Tuesday September 24th, 2024.
Maisudan noted that bill will be a backing material for government establish and regulate as well as source revenue in power sector in the state.
He also added that urban and rural communities in Kebbi State will access to electricity
