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TCN: Power Transmission Contracts Top List of Abandoned Infrastructure Projects Culled from Thisday Of all the infrastructure projects that were procured but abandoned and left to rot away over the years, those contracted by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to expand the country’s transmission network are top on the list of these abandoned projects, the interim Managing Director of the TCN, Mr. Usman Mohammed, has disclosed. Mohammed, stated that these abandoned TCN projects were scattered across the country, and that a lot of them had largely been paid for by the government. He said the contractors for them were mostly Nigerians without the required capacities but selected by influential people in government.According to him, this has cost the TCN both in terms of finances and goodwill especially within multilateral agencies that are always willing to provide funds for its network expansion. Mohammed said these at the weekend when two high-end transmission infra...