Some top management staff of the Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) on Friday blamed the ongoing nationwide epileptic power supply on the inability of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to meet energy demands.
The officials, who pleaded anonymity, gave the blame in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
According to them, most DISCOs have been trapped in poor service delivery by the TCN which has signifi cantly reduced power supply to consumers. They alleged that the situation had drastically reduced the revenue base of the DISCOs as well as sabotaging their supply capacities to end users.
They blamed the development on “poor fault clearance by the transmission company, owing to poor financing and bureaucracy in maintaining some of the equipment.
“The epileptic power situation has denied most distribution companies huge revenue because it ‘could not claim money for services not delivered to the consumers,’’ they alleged. They said that poor energy supply had made it extremely diffi cult for the DISCOs to distribute bills and collect money from customers.
“This situation is very unpleasant for the good image of the DISCOs because most consumers do not know the supply value chain. So, they believe we are not effi cient, which is a wrong perception,” they said.
An offi cial of the TCN who declined to comment, however, said that there were serious faults on the company’s plants.
He said that the TCN was collaborating with DISCOs to meet the demands of the public.
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