arsenal33:
May be the owners of the DISCOS thought they were buying nightclubs!

VULCAN:
Fashola is just discovering what everybody else has known for over two years and you are here clapping for him.

Perhaps now he has discovered the glaringly obvious he can take some action sometime before 2022!

Before APC won the election he said "its not rocket science" to give us electricity.

Now he has climbed to the seat he has found out that it is quantum physics.

Rubbish.

politeboy:
mr fashola this is what nigeria inherited from pdp. its pure politics by pdp. pls clean the shit and pooh made by pdp. Discos that cannot supply or install ordinary cable what do u expect. this discos are all briefcase companies. pls terminate their contract and bring in better people. useless pdp.

Maduawuchukwu:
Hmm. I respect the sanctity of contract but I do not believe that the government should obey a contract which did not meet the laid down requirement and was still is not able to perfom it's contractual duty. The Privatisation exercise carried out by Nnamdi Sambo was one of the worst things to happen to Nigeria. Power Assets were given to criminals who are incompetent like Emeka Offor etc.
I recommend that their contracts should be cancelled and new exercises.

bareal:


Firstly, the discos have not invested any money as they have made Nigerians think.
Secondly, they didn't do any better even when there was no inflation.
I have top engineer with BEDC warri branch and he made me to understand that owners obviously know nothing about these things, all that they want in their mediocre thinking is just to make money. They don't have the interest of the nation at heart. It's just an opportunity for them to make money and they are making it in billions. no thanks to the witchcraft agreement that after all cannot be terminated

Basfaq:
If Nigeria government can force them to give us prepaid meter they will sit tight.Then they will know what they are doing when they don't make any money.

blank:


First off, govt should pay what it's ministries and security outfits are owing. Then, TCN through NBET (govt owned institutions) should not be using exchange rate of N400 to bill the DISCOs when it was N198 that was the agreed price at the last tariff increase. Then they can modify as they go along.

Maduawuchukwu:

OK. You are very knowledgeable about the issue. I wager that u are a person of interest in there.

blank:


Not really. Based on my present portfolio, i am privy to a lot of the dealings with several DISCOs.

Ajibel:
Seriously, Fashola needs to be more harsh on these guys. They are soiling his reputation and it looks as if the Minister is incompetent in his duties whereas it's the discos that are sabotaging his efforts by rejecting loads given to them.

No one forced them to buy during the privatization bid.

It's just unfortunate that nothing can be done now. Their licenses or contracts cant be revoked. We just have to live with the mess.

ejibaba:


Oga who said it can't be revoked? A situation affecting the nation's survival is what you're saying we should live with abeg stop dropping such statement next time...

Ajibel:


Bro, so if you were in the govt's shoes you'll revoke the contract knowing this could do a lot of damage to our economy?

blank:


BEDC is not all the DISCOs. And i seriously disagree with what your top engineer has told you. He sounds like one of the pained PHCN staff that have their alternative sources of livelihood being cut short. Even if he is the Business Manager of Warri Business Unit, i doubt he is competent enough to give such feedback.

BEDC that has spent money in creating relief feeders and purchasing new MW transformers. Remember that it is a value chain with TCN being the major bottleneck. TCN has to make power available to an injection substation from which the DISCOs then distribute to our individual houses through a network of feeders and transformers. Where they add value is in creating additional feeders to relieve the overloaded feeders, repairing/replacing faulty transformers, ensuring a fair and reasonable measurement of energy consumed and providing multiple ways to make seamless and stress free payments. In it's simplest form.

But a situation where people will gladly bypass and are happy to let others pay for the energy they consumed whilst screaming and swearing at the DISCOs for not providing 24hrs light is not also healthy for the country.