Power outage as Adelabu briefs senate committee on electricity tariff hike

“The entire sector will be grounded if we don’t increase the
tariff,” the minister had said.

“With what we have now in the next three months, the entire
country will be in darkness if we don’t increase tariff.

 “The increment will
catapult us to the next level. We are also Nigerians, we are also feeling the
impact.”

Adelabu was still fielding questions from senators at the
investigative hearing when power went off in the room.

Enyinnaya Abaribe, chairman of the senate committee on
power, pointed to the incident as a reminder of why fixing the energy sector
has become imperative.

“You see what just happened. This is what we all experience.
We the senators experience it too and I am sure even the president does
experience it at the villa, just that he cannot speak out like we are,” Abaribe
said.

Power was restored after five minutes and the hearing with
the minister continued.