By Clara Nwachukwu

The national conference Committee on Energy has summoned owners of electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, unbundled from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to a meeting.

The meeting is sequel to another meeting which held on Wednesday in Abuja, and is with a view to understanding the post-privatisation issues and challenges bedeviling the power sector since the acquisition of PHCN assets last year.

A copy of the committee’s summon, which also contained a brief on the outcome of the earlier meeting obtained by Vanguard read: “Dear CEOs, I wish to bring to your attention a meeting of the Confab Energy Committee, which wanted a representation of the Disco roundtable to meet with them and present post-privatisation issues.

“The Committee has something to do with the National Conference set up by the President to deliberate on all aspects of the economy.

“Some of you may have read about it in the papers. The Energy Committee is chaired by the former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Ladoja and the Vice Chairman is Engr. Bello Suleiman a former Minister of Power and MD of NEPA.

“The Chairman called to request that Disco roundtable meet with them at such short notice, which was not possible.

“So I, as Mercados, offered to present the issues on behalf of Discos. The meeting took place yesterday at about 3p.m.

“A colleague and I tried to present the issues articulated in the presentation attached, but we could not go through it in its entirety.”