Nigeria has requested members of the West African Power Pool (WAPP), a specialised institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to pay up their pending dues in order to ensure smooth operation of the regional power group.
Aside Nigeria, other members of the group include Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
The body was created to ensure regional power system integration and realisation of a regional electricity market and is made up of public and private generation, transmission and distribution companies involved in the operation of electricity in West Africa.