Fashola said in Abuja during his maiden meeting with
power generation, distribution and transmission companies, and other
stakeholders that the agenda was drawn up to ensure effective monitoring of the
sector.
The minister said the agenda involves continuous public
engagement on tariff collection, debts, power generation, maintenance,
ancillary services, dispatch orders and discipline.
Other areas include gas requirement and constraints,
transmission constraints, 33KV load off take, imbalances-locations of excess,
overload safety, service quality, new captive and embedded generation,
franchising and other issues relevant to the growth of the sector.
According to Fashola, President Muhammadu Buhari has
approved that all stakeholders in the sector should hold monthly meetings on
issues concerning the industry.
He said that the meeting would be rotated among the
various GENCOs, DISCOs, TCN and other stakeholders across the country.
Fashola said that all decisions reached in such meetings
would be binding on all the stakeholders.
In this respect, the minister stated that the various
companies and stakeholders would each be represented by a management member
with authority to take decision on behalf of their companies.
He explained that in order to minimize the cost of
hosting the meetings, the companies were advised to jointly pull up resources
required to hold the meetings.
The minister further said the meetings would
also involve lawyers, engineers, planners and other stakeholders, adding that
the ministry would issue a communiqué at the end of each meeting on steps taken
to address challenges in the sector.
Source: The Nation
Source: The Nation
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