Striking AEDC Workers Disrupt Power Transmission To Franchise Areas, TCN Explains

Striking workers of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) have disrupted power evacuation from injection substations to the company’s franchise areas for distribution to electricity end users.

Consequently, the franchise areas under AEDC including Abuja, Nasarawa, Kogi, Parts of Edo, Niger and Kaduna States have been thrown into blackouts.

The Management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said though, it has available bulk power for delivery to the distribution load centres of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) for offtake to its customers but was constrained by the shutdown of AEDC operations by its striking workers.

According to TCN in a statement by the General Manager Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, “Power evacuation from injection substations across AEDC franchise area has been disrupted following a shutdown of the AEDC facilities by its in-house workers’ union.

“TCN regrets this disruption and assures Nigerians that normal bulk power delivery to AEDC will be restored as soon as the injection substations are opened for onward electricity supply to consumers.”

On its part, AEDC management apologized for the blackout following the industrial action embarked by the workers saying “We would like to assure all our customers that all hands are on deck to resolve the issues that prompted this action.

“We would also like to apologize to our costumers for the inconvenience and disruption”, said a terse statement by AEDC’s General Manager, Corporate Communications, Bode Fadipe,