“Hello, please be informed that there has just been a national grid collapse causing an outage in our franchise areas.”
The management of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has announced the appointment of Adeoye Fadeyibi as its new CEO/MD.
The disco said it’s working to optimally deploy the low power AEDC is being allocated daily in recent days.
Many residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have continued to count their losses following the power blackouts in most parts of the Territory.
The company said that the interruption was to enable the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), to carry out maintenance on its Apo substation.
The government had on Wednesday sacked the management of AEDC over allegations that it hasn’t been meeting its commitments to stakeholders.
“Those that they call electricity committee use all kinds of tricks to collect money. At times they call it facility fees.”
The customer said every time he buys an electricity token from AEDC, 60 percent of the amount is deducted as payment for the alleged debt.
The company says the outage is to allow for replacement of the entire breaker panels in the axis.
The AEDC also said it could not provide data on projected metres distribution before the end of 2020.
