The Managing Director, CEO, Kaduna Electric, Engineer Garba Haruna, has called on the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union congress to stop their planned picketing of distribution companies as the nation cannot afford any disruption to power supply now.
He said the current economic challenges facing the country makes the planned action of the labour movements ill-motivated and counterproductive. According to Engineer Garba, all stakeholders must join hands together to consolidate on the success achieved with the privatization of the power sector. “For the first time in the history of Nigeria’s power sector, electricity generation has hit an all-time high of 5,075MW, demonstrating the evolution and progress in the capacity of the sector to meet the country’s power needs, a major requirement in the drive to grow the nation’s economy and improve quality of life”, he said. Engineer Garba reiterated that the new tariff regime recently approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission is not only about tariff increase.

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