The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company has said that the 4,000 megawatts generated daily in Nigeria cannot meet the electricity needs of over 200 million Nigerians.
Mr Emeka Eze, Head of Corporate Communications, EEDC, said this in response to an allegation that it was deliberately providing poor services to the customers in the zone.
Speaking with The PUNCH on Tuesday, Eze said that the country generates 4,000 megawatts of electricity daily which was not enough to solve the electricity needs of Nigeria’s large population.
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While maintaining that the crisis rocking the nation’s power sector was quite huge, Emeka Eze said the challenges currently confronting the power sector of Nigeria could not be solved overnight.
“The challenges facing the nation’s power sector is huge, fundamental and requires fundamental and pragmatic steps to address them. We are not folding our arms in the midst of this myriad of challenges.
“We have embarked on some project to solve the electricity problems in the South-East geopolitical zone. We have built some sub-stations in Awka, Enugu, Owerri, Abakaliki and we have mapped out some projects to be executed in Aba, the economic hub of Abia State.
“So, we are trying our best to render quality service to our customers. But there are also challenges of energy theft, vandalism, meter bypass and no payment of bills. These are issues, but we are poised to serve our customers better,” Eze said.
