The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has clarified speculations regarding the supply of free electricity to Nigerians to ensure the stay-at-home order is palatable.
TCN Managing Director, Usman Mohammed disclosed the Federal Government is incapable of providing free electricity to the citizenry.
This is however contrary to the statement of the Distribution Companies (DisCos) which stated the FG is ‘making plans’ to make power supply free to Nigerians in these hard times of COVID-19 Pandemic.
Usman Mohammed speaking in Abuja on Thursday, April 17 disclosed speculations alleging free electricity for two months in Nigeria is mere propaganda that lacks factual substance.
He said: “There is this information that went round that power is going to be free. I don’t know where that information came from.
“But I can tell you that there is nothing like power is going to be free because the federal government cannot make power free. The federal government does not own the power.
“In the electricity industry, apart from transmission, which is just the transporter, all the other chains do not belong to the federal government. So, I cannot understand how somebody will concoct that information.
“But these are some of the people involved in propaganda who brand information that is very unnecessary, to be honest.
“I think at this stage what we need to do is to sustainably supply electricity and that is what we are doing.”