TCN highlights difficulties, major threats to transmission towers

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has cited vandalism and insurgency as posing major threats to transmission towers across the country.

The TCN which disclosed this in a statement on Friday at the Environment Reporters/Transmission Company of Nigeria media parley in Abuja, said insinuations that it inflated contracts and thereby increasing price of electricity, were false.

Speaking on the theme: “TCN Programmes and Achievements”, spokesman for the company, Ambrose Sule, noted that “the scourge of insurgency and vandalism threaten transmission towers.”