Lagos cancels transformer distribution in urban areas

Lagos State government has ruled out distribution of transformers and carrying out fresh electrification projects in the semi-urban and urban areas.

This was revealed by the Commissioner for Rural Development, Mr. Cornelius Ojelabi, who spoke to Vanguard in Ikeja on the highlights of the state’s 2013 Community Week Celebration.

Ojelabi, who noted that there’s high demand for transformers with an average of seven transformer requests daily from residents said: “With the privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, we will still continue with the distribution of transformers to residents of the state, but this time, we will be focusing the rural areas.

“The rural areas are those places that we know the new investors can’t get to in the next five years while the semi-urban and urban areas will be left for the new investors to manage. As we receive requests for transformers from residents of urban and semi-urban areas, we will aggregate it and send it to the investors for distribution. All our projects will focus more on rural areas, especially in terms of providing electricity.”

Source : Vanguard