Poor Electricity Supply: Adelabu To Hold ‘Important’ Meeting With AEDC, IBEDC CEOs In Abuja Next Week
Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, will be holding an important meeting with the chief executives of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company and the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company over the worsening poor electricity supply in their areas of coverage.
Also directed to attend the meeting is the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Sule Abdulazeez, who will explain what is responsible for the deteriorating power situation across the country since January this year.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Adelabu in a letter signed by the Director, Distribution Services at the Federal Ministry of Power, B.U Mustapha, has ordered the CEOs of the Discos and the TCN boss to attend the important meeting in question where issues concerning worsening electricity supply in their regions and possible solutions will be discussed.
A statement issued in Abuja on Saturday by the minister’s Special Adviser, Strategic Communications and Media Relations, Bolaji Tunji, quoted Adelabu as saying that the management teams of other non-performing discos would also be queried over non-performance as reports continue to filter in on the situation in their respective regions.
‘These two discos have been summoned due to the worsening power supply situation in their regions despite improved supply from TCN’ he said while noting that gas shortage notwithstanding, the ministry had been putting pressure on the power generating companies to improve performance and generation had been ramped up to over 4,000 megawatts in recent days.
‘So, we expect power supply to have improved across the country, unlike what we are experiencing in some regions, presently.
Findings revealed that some distribution companies were deliberately not taking up power supply from TCN while some power lines were also damaged by vandals in Abuja, Benin, Port Harcourt and Ibadan regions’ the statement added.
While the minister has directed the TCN to immediately commence repair works on the damaged transmission towers and power lines in order to improve supply in the affected regions, he has also noted that going forward, focus would be on all the discos to compel them to expected performance while, ‘willful non- performance by any disco could suffice as a reason for severe punishment or outright license revocation’- Team@orientactualmags.com
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