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The President of Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, Kunle Olubiyo has said the reoccurrence of National grid collapses which permission the federation successful acheronian typifies the inadequacies of the Transmission Company of Nigeria.
Olubiyo disclosed this connected Monday to DAILY POST portion reacting to the sixth grid illness successful 2024.
DAILY POST reports that the National grid collapsed again connected Monday astir 6:48 p.m. which plunged the state into darkness.
Although, TCN described the illness arsenic partial and noted that it has commenced restoration, powerfulness proviso is yet to beryllium restored successful parts of the state arsenic of the clip of filing this report.
Reacting, Olubiyo said TCN’s trademark successful the past years is paying articulator work to the challenges facing the grid.
He knocked the TCN for its deficiency of sincerity successful dealing with the occupation of incessant grid collapses.
“The repeated occurrences of System Collapses and challenges of National Grid’s Stability and Reliability are mostly owed to a deficiency of sincerity of purposes and paying lips services to a wide spectrum of issues and misplaced priorities implicit the years by the absorption of Transmission Company of Nigeria.
“Inadequate concern successful Network Improvement Strategies, Dearth of System Protective Scheme/ System Protective Devices, Near Zero.
“Vegetation Control and each different recurring decimal of already identified challenges which person received small oregon nary attention”, helium said
Recall that grid collapses were recorded connected February 4, July 6, August, and September 19, 2024.
TCN information showed that the country’s nationalist grid has collapsed much than 227 times successful the past 14 years.
This comes amid the hike successful energy tariff successful April by 240 percent which has worsened the hardship Nigerians are facing.
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