DisCos ask Power Minister to end blame game among electricity operators

Electricity distribution companies (DisCos) have asked the Federal Government to step in over growing disagreements among operators in the power sector, warning that a renewed blame game over weeks of poor supply could undermine efforts to stabilise electricity nationwide.

The Managing Director of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), Sunday Oduntan, made the call on Monday on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, according to The Whistler and Nairametrics. He said the industry was returning to the pattern of mutual accusations that marked the sector between 2016 and 2019.

He urged the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, to bring stakeholders across the electricity value chain together to establish the actual causes of the supply disruptions and ensure accountability. The appeal comes amid conflicting explanations from the Nigerian Independent System Operator and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited over how far gas supply constraints have contributed to falling generation.

Mr Oduntan said the disagreements among distribution companies, transmission operators, generation companies and gas suppliers could complicate efforts to resolve the electricity challenges if responsibilities are not clearly established.