Erratic power supply: Kano DISCO apologises to customers

Kano State Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) monday declared its intention to diversify into other sources of power generation, describing the current situation as frustrating and pathetic as a result of the activities of vandals who have been destroying gas pipelines and other facilities of power generation.

Speaking to reporters at KEDCO headquarters in Kano, the Managing Director, Dr. Jamil Isyaku Gwamna said that already, the company has entered into Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with investors to work out alternative sources of power generation.
Gwawna who spoke through the Chief Technical Officer of KEDCO, Engr. David Omoloye, said that the company is ready to generate power through solar energy and wind power, adding that these two sources of energy when put in use in a couple of years will ease the current challenges faced in the course of power generation.
The KEDCO boss, however, expressed bitterness over the issue of vandalization which is said has virtually crippled power generation and distribution across the country, thereby, affecting socio-economic activities negatively.
According to him, “it is a serious situation which is presently beyond us; and I want I want our customers to have confident in us and show understanding in this trying period. It not our making those customers does not get adequate power supply.
“Presently, we have been receiving only 50 megawatts in the past weeks which have made the situation pathetic. This is against 5000 megawatts that we receive before the current challenges caused by vandals.
“It is the vandals that plunge us into this mess and that are why we are trying our best to see that we can get into other sources of power supply to augment the current situation. We deeply apologize to our customers and that is why the company is looking for other alternatives for renewable energy which our investors have already indicated interest.
“You are also aware that Kano state government on its own is making efforts to generate 1000 megawatts from solar energy. You know that already, the government is in partnership with foreign investors to actualize this. So, in less than no time, things will improve.”