The KEDCO/TCN spat shows how low we’ve descended in this country. An estimated 35 million people, over a million homes and hundreds of thousands of business premises in Kano, Jigawa and Katsina have been, near totally, deprived of electricity recently.
The reason for this calamity is because of disagreement between service provider and a supplier, or rather a disagreement between a driver and his conductor.
On July 21, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced that Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) was suspended from the market, and a section of its transmission facilities disconnected from the national grid.
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Since this decision, which in TCN’s strange logic was aimed at penalising KEDCO for a default in observing the Electricity Operator Administered Market Conditions/Market Participation Agreements, the people are at the receiving end.
Having cherry-picked the distribution license without technical competence, it appears KEDCO care less about the socio-economic consequences of this crisis on the society, just as TCN, whose managing director was appointed through the backdoor, has no concern about the plight of the people.
Energy crisis in this age is an emergency issue. The socio-economic consequences of this avoidable outage in the three states is immeasurable.
If we have serious leaders who have the grit in leadership, this will not happen. But our leaders are watching the drama, under Mikano-powered atmosphere, as the misery of the people increases in gigawatt scale.
