Peterside accuses BPE chief of stalling privatisation
UNLESS there is a last-minute change of plan, the Power Sub-Committee of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) will meet today to decide on the sale of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (Disco). The Technical Sub-Committee will meet tomorrow.
A Presidency source said Sunday that the meeting would discuss and possibly resolve the seeming impasse over the sale of the Enugu Disco whose preferred bidder, Interstate Electric, has continually failed to pay the required 75 per cent balance despite enjoying obvious sympathy within government.
The Guardian had last Monday reported that in what looked like a division in the NCP headed by Vice President Namadi Sambo, the Chairman of the Technical Committee (TC) of the NCP, Mr. Atedo Peterside, had taken up the Director-General (DG) of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) over what a stakeholder described as “a crooked attempt to sell the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company to Interstate Electric.”
Another letter from Peterside to some members of NPC had expressed similar discomfort with the state of affairs and the failure of the council to meet. The Guardian’s report last Monday had quoted a previous letter to the DG, BPE, asking him to do the right thing in the existing situation.
But the latest letter of Peterside accused BPE of frustrating efforts to convene a meeting. In fact, the letter blamed the NCP’s failure to meet on BPE.
UNLESS there is a last-minute change of plan, the Power Sub-Committee of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) will meet today to decide on the sale of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (Disco). The Technical Sub-Committee will meet tomorrow.
A Presidency source said Sunday that the meeting would discuss and possibly resolve the seeming impasse over the sale of the Enugu Disco whose preferred bidder, Interstate Electric, has continually failed to pay the required 75 per cent balance despite enjoying obvious sympathy within government.
The Guardian had last Monday reported that in what looked like a division in the NCP headed by Vice President Namadi Sambo, the Chairman of the Technical Committee (TC) of the NCP, Mr. Atedo Peterside, had taken up the Director-General (DG) of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) over what a stakeholder described as “a crooked attempt to sell the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company to Interstate Electric.”
Another letter from Peterside to some members of NPC had expressed similar discomfort with the state of affairs and the failure of the council to meet. The Guardian’s report last Monday had quoted a previous letter to the DG, BPE, asking him to do the right thing in the existing situation.
But the latest letter of Peterside accused BPE of frustrating efforts to convene a meeting. In fact, the letter blamed the NCP’s failure to meet on BPE.
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