KEDC boss suggests ways to improve power supply
The Managing Director of Kaduna Electric, Engr. Garba Haruna has suggested a triple action strategy to solving challenges bedevilling the nation’s power sector.
He said the strategies are; reductions in the cost of electricity generation through reduction in the cost of gas; Central Bank of Nigeria’s intervention through provision of low interest finance to the participants in the industry and subsidization of electricity to residential customers.
A statement by KEDC spokesman, Abdulaziz Abdullahi said Haruna made the assertion yesterday while granting audience to members of the House of Representative committee on privatization and commercialization during the latter’s oversight visit to the company in Kaduna.
The statement said Haruna also called for the review of the capacity cost which the distribution companies are made to bear.
He announced that the Company’s desire to ensure full and timely metering of its customers is been inhibited by the existing regulatory frame work which limits its annual investment in metering to N4.2bn.
Chairman of the House committee, Alhaji Ahmed Yarima charged the management of the company to ensure full compliance with all its contractual agreement with the authority. About 100 civil society groups have signed a petition urging the United Nations to prevail on Amnesty International to desist from what they termed ‘plot to destabilize Nigeria’.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja, Secretary General of Save Africa Group, an umbrella body of civil society organisations, Mr. Olayemi Success, accused Amnesty International of being part of a plot to break up Nigeria.
He said the UN must intervene before Amnesty International creates another humanitarian crisis as millions of Nigerians are already displaced as a result of the action of Boko Haram which he said has been emboldened by AI.
Olayemi said various CSOs have gathered signatures from Nigerians and is set to approach the International Criminal Court of Justice to ensure that AI and its staff in Nigeria account for their deeds by their support for terrorism.