The issue of arbitrary tariff and monopoly of electricity supply would soon be a thing of the past in Abia State as the government has expressed the hope that the state House of Assembly will be expediting action on the passage of the bill to establish the state electricity regulatory authority upon resumption from their current recess.

A bill to this effect, according to the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Prince Okey Kanu, has scaled through second reading at the House of Assembly and that it holds the key to breaking the monopoly of electricity generation and distribution companies in the state.

The commissioner explained further that the passage of the bill would give further impetus to the ongoing reforms in the power sector, just as his counterpart in Power and Public Utilities, Engr. Ikechukwu Monday, described the Abia Electricity Bill as an all-encompassing law, which the government has been working on for a while.

Monday said the passage of the bill into law would give the state government not only the opportunity to own power assets, but also to regulate the sector

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