Electricity workers reject TCN unbundling, says plan will kill sector

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Electricity workers reject TCN unbundling, says plan will kill sector
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The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has called on the National Assembly and Nigerians to resist the planned unbundling of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to save the nation from the imminent collapse of the power sector and avoid putting the nation’s security in...

The National Union of Electricity Employees has called on the National Assembly and Nigerians to resist the planned unbundling of the Transmission Company of Nigeria by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to save the nation from the imminent collapse of the power sector and avoid putting the nation’s security in danger.

Acting General Secretary of NUEE, Dominic Igwebike, in the petition, warned that the decision to embark on another round of the exercise was disastrous, even as he regretted that the power sector had been plunged into murky waters of unproductivity with its previous deregulation. Giving statistics, he said in the sector’s performance chain today, the transmission network with a wheeling capacity of 8,000MW has been strengthened to comfortably wheel out power generated by the generation companies whose average operational generation output is far below the total installed generation capacity .

The National Union of Electricity Employees has called on the National Assembly and Nigerians to resist the planned unbundling of the Transmission Company of Nigeria by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to save the nation from the imminent collapse of the power sector and avoid putting the nation’s security in danger.

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