Minister of power, works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola assured that all administrative matters affecting the best performance of Transmission Company of Nigerian has been resolved.
The minister stated this when he appeared before an investigative hearing by the House Committee on power.
Mr Fashola also enumerated 125 uncompleted TCN projects across the country, which he attributed to certain pending issues, of which only 40 were viable for completion.
He says, with 7,125megawatts of power generation, TCN has really improved but does not possess the capacity to distribute them.
The house committee on power has the mandate to investigate various allegations against the operations of the TCN in areas such as non-payment to contractors, non-completion of projects, resources management and megawatts generation and distribution.
While some members sought clarifications on certain issues including the appointment of interim Managing Director of the company, Chairman of the committee, Representative Daniel Asuquo explained that the committee Will aggregate all the issues raised and make adequate recommendations to the house at plenary.
In another development, on Budget Defence, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, presented a N45.5billion 2018 budget proposal to the house committee on Electoral and Political Parties Matters. He also went ahead to defend the 2017 budget performance of the commission.
