President Goodluck Jonathan will soon begin commissioning of four power projects across the country.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo, and Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam at the end of the last meeting of the Board of Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Ltd.
The meeting was chaired by Vice-President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Nebo also disclosed that the administration has achieved installed minimum electricity generation capacity of 5,500 megawatts despite unrelenting sabotage of oil and gas pipelines by vandals.
According to him, government was losing N120 million monthly and N1.5 billion yearly to repairs of vandalised pipelines.
The Minister said that a pattern of deliberate vandalism of the pipelines, which occurs every two weeks, had made the nation to lose about 1,600 megawatts of electricity at a particular time.
He therefore advised the incoming government of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to intensify security surveillance of the petroleum pipelines in the country and consider digitalising the surveillance system.
On the commissioning, he said: “Four power plants have been completed and will be commissioned in the next couple of weeks. Sapele is one of them, Ihobor is another one. And hopefully, by the grace of God, we intend to do the commissioning very soon so that Nigerians will enjoy even more of what the current administration has done in the power sector.
“There are literally hundreds of other projects that need to be commissioned. So, very soon, we are going into the commissioning exercise.”
On his part, Suswam, who is also a member of the Board, said: “The board resolved to commission some of the numerous projects under the NIPP programme. Those projects are to be commissioned in the subsequent weeks.”
Apart from the new power plants, he explained that the government has completed more transmission lines but would not be able to complete some sales transactions because of some complications in the bid process and inadequate gas supply.
The inability to seal the sale transaction deals, he said, was not due to fear of the unknown when a new government comes on board next month.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo, and Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam at the end of the last meeting of the Board of Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Ltd.
The meeting was chaired by Vice-President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Nebo also disclosed that the administration has achieved installed minimum electricity generation capacity of 5,500 megawatts despite unrelenting sabotage of oil and gas pipelines by vandals.
According to him, government was losing N120 million monthly and N1.5 billion yearly to repairs of vandalised pipelines.
The Minister said that a pattern of deliberate vandalism of the pipelines, which occurs every two weeks, had made the nation to lose about 1,600 megawatts of electricity at a particular time.
He therefore advised the incoming government of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to intensify security surveillance of the petroleum pipelines in the country and consider digitalising the surveillance system.
On the commissioning, he said: “Four power plants have been completed and will be commissioned in the next couple of weeks. Sapele is one of them, Ihobor is another one. And hopefully, by the grace of God, we intend to do the commissioning very soon so that Nigerians will enjoy even more of what the current administration has done in the power sector.
“There are literally hundreds of other projects that need to be commissioned. So, very soon, we are going into the commissioning exercise.”
On his part, Suswam, who is also a member of the Board, said: “The board resolved to commission some of the numerous projects under the NIPP programme. Those projects are to be commissioned in the subsequent weeks.”
Apart from the new power plants, he explained that the government has completed more transmission lines but would not be able to complete some sales transactions because of some complications in the bid process and inadequate gas supply.
The inability to seal the sale transaction deals, he said, was not due to fear of the unknown when a new government comes on board next month.
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