{"id":21943,"date":"2020-04-17T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/?p=21943"},"modified":"2020-04-17T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:30:06","slug":"no-free-electricity-to-nigerians-tcn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/no-free-electricity-to-nigerians-tcn\/","title":{"rendered":"No free electricity to Nigerians &#8211; TCN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Moses Uwagbale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>As conflicting information rent the air concerning free electricity supply to Nigerians as part of COVID-19 palliatives, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has dismissed the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>It said that Federal Government was not providing free electricity to Nigerians as government does not own all sections in the power sector.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Managing Director of TCN, Mr Usman Mohammed, said in Abuja : \u201cThere is also the information that power is going to be free, that is going to affect us because some customers who get this information may not likely pay.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Federal Government cannot make power free because it does not own the power.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cApart from the transmission (TCN) which is just the transporter of electricity that belongs to the Federal Government, all the other chains are in private hands.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs at now that the Federal Government is providing subsidy, and that is not coming enough as we still have huge unpaid bills,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He said that electricity supply services significantly improved in the first 14 days of the lockdown across Lagos, Ogun states and Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Mohammed said that what the country needs to do at this stage was to sustain electricity supply.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat is what we are doing and in the last two weeks that we have been on lockdown, we have performed very well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He lamented that the ongoing lockdown may affect revenue generation for the power sector.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>According to the TCN boss, the company has scaled down operations to the extent that only the senior staff are working along with technical staff who run shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He said that TCN was observing all preventive measures on the COVID-19 as directed by National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Mohammed also commended the Federal Government for steps taken to contain the pandemic and urged Nigerians to abide by all directives of government to save lives.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The TCN boss said that the company in the first three months of 2020 made a lot of successes.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe installed a 300 Mega Volt Amp (MVA) transformer in less than a month and this has never happened in the history of TCN.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe also connected the protection system through fibre which we have not done before too.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring this lockdown period, we also installed seven bulk power transformers across the network all using our TCN engineers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The House of Representatives reported it would consider a fresh Stimulus Bill that would allow Nigerians to enjoy electricity supply for two months without any charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moses Uwagbale As conflicting information rent the air concerning free electricity supply to Nigerians as part of COVID-19 palliatives, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has dismissed the claim. 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