Fashola Spits Fire, Warns DISCOs To Stop Mass Disconnection

“The DISCOs bought these assets with their eyes wide open and they must compete to deliver or exit,” Fashola warned.

“In the face of this picture where we have power to sell with more to come, the number of complaints coming to government for meter which DISCOs should supply, and for estimated billings and mass disconnection where not everybody is owing cannot continue. Government must act and will do so.”

According to the minister, investment of the generating companies is threatened because the capacity of electricity being generated is under-utilised.

he said small business owners who need very little power were not getting enough because the DISCOs could not make the power available to them.

The minister also announced improvement in the nation’s power.

“I can report progress in generation, transmission, and distribution post-privatisation,” he added.

“The generation of power has improved from approximately 4,000MW in 2015 to approximately 7,000MW in 2018, averaging an increase of about 1,000MW per annum.”Babatunde Fashola/ Twitter

Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola on Monday warned electricity distribution companies in Nigeria to improve their services or stop operating.

Fashola, during a news conference in Abuja said these firms were aware of the challenges in the power sector, so have no excuses not to deliver quality services to Nigerians.

The minister said the federal government would no longer tolerate the issues of estimated billing and mass disconnection of consumers.