Senator-elect, Shehu Sani, berates President Jonathan over split of TCN

A Senator-elect, representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, on Monday, criticised President Goodluck Jonathan’s last minute plan to split the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) into two.
Daily Trust had also reported on Monday that TCN is currently under a management contract by Manitoba International Hydro of Canada worth $23.7 million.
Mr. Sani, while reacting to the plan, told PREMIUM TIMES that until lanterns and generators are out of our lives, all reforms on power remain academic.
He said each new step of the power reform process leads Nigerians more into darkness.

“Money spent from Obasanjo’s era to date is capable of powering the West African countries,” he said. “The power sector in Nigeria is part of the nation’s epicentre of corruption.”
“Power reforms in Nigeria guzzled our foreign exchange, sent workers and their families out of jobs and to poverty and enriched entrenched interests, vultures and parasites in the corridors of power.
“Therefore, splitting power distribution means nothing if it does not in any way translates to light.
“Power reforms in Nigeria has literary made ‘dark age’ a thing of the present. The sale of PHCN is nothing but a theft of our collective property.”