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Reps Invite CBN, DISCOs, Others Over $321, N18.2bn Electricity Projects

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The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee on Thursday has summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria and 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) in Nigeria over $321 million and N18.2 billion loans for the accelerated transmission distribution interface, lines and substation projects

The summoned are to appear before the Committee on Wednesday, November 8th.

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The Chairman of the PAC, Hon Bamidele Salam, handed down the summons when the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Engr Sule Abdulaziz appeared before the Committee on Thursday.

Salam said a petition was received on the lack of judicious use of the funds, which were paid to the DISCOs by the CBN on prompting of the TCN.

Abdulaziz told the Committee that the funds were paid directly to the DISCOs by the CBN to embark on the various projects.

He said the repayment of the loans was from the revenue of the TCN.

This did not sit very well with the Committee who expressed concern over the repayment arrangement.

Chairman of the Committee, Bamidele Salam, demanded that the TCN should provide details of disbursement of the loans, procurement process, how many DISCOs were involved, the stage of the projects, and the structure of the repayment of the loans to the beneficiaries of the loan.

Hon. Salam said, “Sometime in 2021 the then president Muhammadu Buhari granted that certain funds be made available for the purpose of enhancing the capacity of our transmission and distribution lines to be able to have a more robust power sector intervention and these funds were made available for certain projects to the distribution companies.

“It is the concern of the petitioner that the fund have not been judiciously used and that the project ought to have been delivered by now upon which we caused a letter to be written to the Transmission Company of Nigeria which also sent in a response stating the status report of the project as well as the procedure for the implementation of that loan disbursement and execution of the project by the distribution companies.

“Our concern is to ensure that all our institutions work well in accordance with the law and in accordance with global best practices and to ensure money is judiciously utilized.”

Abdulaziz said there was a gap in the electricity sector and the distribution companies were complaining that the TCN was not giving them supply.

He said there was a need to invest in some projects so that the distribution companies would be able to distribute light to Nigerians.

He said, “But it was observed that TCN does not have that amount to do those projects, so the FGd involved the CBN as the people to finance the projects. NERC being the regulator now is the one leading the exercise. TCN is just a beneficiary of the project. It is signed by the DISCOs. In TCN there is a Project Monitoring Office that was set up to do this procurement.“

Also speaking the TCN Market Operator, Engr Edmond Eje, said NERC oversaw engagement between TCN and 11 DISCOs to align on a list of critical interface projects that would significantly increase TCN’s capacity to unlock DISCOs energy demand in critical load centres.

He said a total of 125 projects were identified and agreed upon in the tripartite engagement.

“The Commission approved the project list of 125 projects as well as the securing of financing from the CBN for the same project to the tune of about N122.3 billion in loan…

“The TCN and the 11 distribution companies set up a multi stakeholder project management office that was responsible for undertaking the procurement and eventual monitoring and evaluation of the project to implement the DISCO intervention.

“DISCOS are the beneficiaries and took it on bhalf of TCN to execute projects. At the end of the day, it was scheduled that from TCN’s revenue, these loans would be amortized from source.

“In order words on monthly basis, each of these monies sent to the contractors would be amortized though our revenue. “

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