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According to Momoh, the Nigerian military, the police and other state government agencies have refused to pay their electricity debts, thus, posing a challenge for the DisCo.

The PUNCH recalls that electricity distribution companies in Nigeria recently lamented that no fewer than 20 of the 36 state governments in the country have refused to pay their electricity bills.

The Discos said some states owed electricity bills consumed by the state house or the secretariat.

“If you look at all our states right now, at least 20 states are seen to be owing electricity bills in either the government house or MDAs,” the Executive Director of Research and Advocacy, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, Sunday Oduntan, told our correspondent last week.

Oduntan regretted that when the Discos attempted to recover the debts from the state governments, they would have their offices sealed over claims of unpaid taxes to the states.

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