Sam Amadi, NERC Chairman
• Threatens to dismiss laggard CEOs
Chineme Okafor
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is set to “come down heavy” on any of the successor distribution companies (disco) of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) found guilty of contravening its order on the installation of metering facilities to eligible electricity consumers across the country.
NERC also threatened to initiate enforcement procedures against errant discos, adding that such action could see laggard Chief Executives Officers (CEOs) of any guilty disco removed from office.
To this end, NERC Thursday in Abuja issued a 14-day ultimatum to the 12 PHCN distribution companies, warning them to immediately commence metering of customers, who have paid for meters from January 2011, stressing that further violation of its order for them to submit a list of all the electricity consumers would attract severe penalties from it.
Chairman of NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, said in a statement from the commission, that: “Any disco that does not comply with this new directive will be barred from collecting the new electricity tariff.”
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