The Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Sule Abdulaziz has said that the local landowners are stalling the completion of 330KVA evacuation power lines being constructed to evacuate 215 megawatts of power out of Kudenda Power Station in Kaduna.
The installation, when completed, is to take power to the 33KVA Mando power sub-station which serves Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states in the Northwest.
The Managing Director said the project is being stalled because the landowners complained that compensation offered to them is meagre.
According to Abdulaziz, in the TCN rules of engagement, we only compensate properties and crops, maintaining that “all lands belong to the government.”
The MD said the laying of 330KVA evacuation power lines which is at 80 per cent completion will boost the supply of power in the four franchise states of Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara.
That project has been completed long ago and the Minister of Water Resources has been writing to the Minister of Power to make sure that we finish this one here.