House of Representatives tackle AEDC over power distribution formula
Naija News • Feb 22
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The Ad hoc Committee of the House of Representatives investigating power sector reforms and expenditures from 2006 to 2024 has strongly criticised the discriminatory electricity distribution policy being implemented by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).
This folowed reports that the company allocates about 80 percent of its electricity supply to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), while the balance of 20 percent is shared among Kogi, Niger and Nasarawa states within its franchise area.
The committee during an oversight visit to the corporate headquarters of the company in Abuja as part of its ongoing probe into performance of the sector’s operators and the utilisation of intervention funds since the 2005 unbundling and subsequent privatisation of the sec...