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We’ve removed electricity subsidy, petrol is next, says Zainab Ahmed
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, says the federal government has removed the subsidy on electricity tariff.
She also hinted at government’s plans to remove subsidy on petrol.
Ahmed said this at a virtual meeting of African Finance Ministers and the International Monetary Fund, on Thursday.
The theme of the meeting was ‘The political economy of fiscal reforms’.
“We are cleaning up our subsidies. We had a setback; we were to remove fuel subsidy by July this year but there was a lot of pushback from the polity. We have elections coming and because of the hardship that companies and citizens went through during the COVID-19 pandemic, we just felt that the time was not right, so we pulled back on that,” Ahmed said.
“But we have been able to quietly implement subsidy removal in the electricity sector and as we speak, we don’t have subsidies in the electricity sector. We did that incrementally over time by carefully adjusting the prices at some levels while holding the lower levels down.”
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