Billionaire Tony Elumelu raises alarm about rising debt in Nigeria's power sector

  • The chairman of Transnational Corporation Plc wants FG to pay up the debt it owes power-generating companies
  • The billionaire investor said that the federal government is owing Transcorp Power N250 billion
  • He added that the debt negatively impacts power generation businesses’ capacity to pay their gas suppliers

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Tony Elumelu, Chairman of Transnational Corporation Plc, urged the federal government to expedite the payment of the nation’s over N2 trillion debt to electricity generation firms (Gencos).