Kaduna Distribution Company has declared yesterday’s picketing by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over the hike in electricity tariffs as illegal, opportunistic, unwarranted and disruptive, saying that all DisCos have jointly spent over N32 billion in improving electricity infrastructures in the country.
Kaduna Distribution Company, also known as Kaduna Electric, said that all the distribution companies have carried out their activities in line with the performance agreement they signed with Bureau for Public Enterprises despite poor access to funding among other challenges.
The head Corporate Communication of Kaduna Electric, Abdulazeez Abdullahi, said that, “the nationwide strike to protest new electricity tariffs is, at best, opportunistic, and at worse, unwarranted, disruptive and illegal. All DisCos have robust metering plans, consistent with the Performance Agreements that they executed with the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) and they have commenced rolling out meters in an environment of market revenue shortfalls and limited access to funding.
“It is incorrect to state that the DisCos have not been making the necessary investments in the sector to make it work. Indeed, through the period of August, 2015, the DisCos have invested an estimated N32 billion in new customer call centers, purchased and installed automated vending machines, replaced and refurbished distribution network infrastructure (capacitors, transformers, network cables, etc.), installed ICT systems, purchased smart meters, etc.
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