Some electricity consumers in Abia State have been thrown into unprecedented and indefinite darkness by the Market Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
This development, according to stakeholders is a punitive measure against the country’s newest electricity distribution company, Aba Power Limited, over payment of statutory fees to Federal Government agencies.
He said: “I want to assume that there is no sinister motive, but a situation where a letter was written on April 19, delivered the next day to an electricity distribution company and then cut off power supplies to the distribution company within a couple of hours the same day over a debt of N896m is unprecedented.
The Managing Director, Aba Power, Patrick Umeh, who was a commissioner with the National Electricity Regulatory Commission , denied that his company has been nonchalant towards the payment of fees to government agencies. Aba Power became Nigeria’s 12th and newest electricity distribution company on February 16, 2022, when it paid $26m to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company and Interstate Electrics to acquire the Aba Ring-fenced Area comprising nine out of the 17 local councils in Abia State, though full control of the area did not occur till six months later when it was allowed to collect revenue from customers.
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