Contractors handling power distribution projects across the country have only three months from now to deliver or be blacklisted by the Federal Government.
Vice President Namadi Sambo warned yesterday that government would terminate the contract of any firm that fails to complete its project within the stipulated period.
He spoke at a meeting in Abuja with stakeholders and contractors handling the power transmission projects.
He expressed government’s disappointment at the inability of the contractors to connect and energize completed 33KVA feeders to inject Substations of Enugu, Jos and Port Harcourt DISCOs.
The government also directed that all transformers currently lying idle at the warehouses of the distribution companies be distributed at a fee to be spread over a period of time.
Besides,it gave approval to the DISCOs to buy some of the assets owned by the former PHCN with payments spread over 15 years.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Godknows Igali, briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting said: “ in the next few days, federal government team will be talking with the DISCOs on these transformers with a view to making them available to improve power across the country.
“Any contractor who fails to deliver the project at the end of two months will have their names blacklisted from executing any contract in Nigeria any longer. And this information will be sent to the Bureau of Public Procurement in order to have them in their data bank. So that any time they see those names as potential contractor in the future, they will not be considered.”
Yesterday’s meeting,he said, reviewed the power supply situation in the country and “to work out strategies through which government investment through the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) in terms of various assets at the distribution level could be completed and transferred to the DISCOS at a price, not free of charge”.
The Managing Director of NDPHC, James Olotu, said that the NDPHC through the NIPP, is handling about 297 distribution projects across Nigeria and that only 57 have been completed while the rest are at various stages of completion.None is less than 60 percent completed.
He said that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), was at the meeting to review its area of intervention in order to ensure that the capacities of their transmission adequately meet the need of the DISCOs
He listed the challenges facing power supply to include non-availability of 33 KVA bays at the 132/33KV substations, inadequate transmission capacity at the TCN substations of the Abuja, Ikeja and Port Harcourt DISCOs.
Others, according to him, include insecurity in the North (0)
FG gives power distribution contractors 60 days to complete projects
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