‘South-East losing billions of Naira to electricity crisis’ – SEECA charges govs on generation

Amid the worsening powerfulness situation successful Nigeria, the South East Electricity Consumers Association, SEECA, has called connected governors successful the portion to accord much attraction to energy generation.

This is arsenic it lamented that residents were losing billions of Naira owing to epileptic powerfulness supply.

SEECA, an umbrella assemblage of energy consumers successful the South East, said this was the fastest way to achieving the concern gyration the portion seeks.

Coordinator of SEECA, Dr Sebastine Chukwuebuka Okafor, made this known successful Enugu, weekend, during a chat with journalists.

He was addressing the persistent energy shortages that had affected the South East successful caller months, mostly owed to powerfulness procreation challenges connected the nationalist grid.

He stated that the concern had caused terrible hardship for energy consumers successful the zone, starring to losses estimated astatine implicit N28 cardinal wrong 3 months.

According to him, the epileptic powerfulness proviso has crippled galore businesses, particularly during the yuletide play erstwhile commercialized activities usually peak.

Okafor posited that energy organisation companies (DisCos) successful the portion should not beryllium wholly blamed, stressing that the energy worth concatenation was analyzable and that DisCos could not administer powerfulness they bash not receive.

He added t...