By Etuka Sunday
Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, yesterday received the report of the technical investigative committee inaugurated to look into the constant system collapses across the federation, assuring of full implementation of the recommendations.
The committee which was given two weeks to complete its assignments was also given the mandate to determine the immediate and remote causes of the system collapses, review all the system collapses that had occurred from January to date, review the performance and effectiveness of the grid's protection system in the period under review and recommend measures to further strengthen the protection mechanism.
Receiving the report from the Chairman of the Committee, the Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo praised the level of professionalism exhibited by the committee to have submitted the report by the stipulated time frame of two weeks, saying that its recommendations would be fully implemented.
The Minister however expressed dissatisfaction over the destructive activities of vandals which led to the massive drop of power by 1,598MW causing load shedding across the country therefore appealed for stop saying it's inimical to the development of the nation.
Nebo said that the power sector is passing through difficult times, "some of the problems are man-made while others are natural" therefore appealed for calm from the public.
He also assured Nigerians of constant power supply as contained in the power roadmap of the Federal Government.
Addressing newsmen after the presentation, Chairman of the Panel, Fatai Olapade, said all the recommendations would be made public in a later date, saying that some of the problems are not government related.
He gave the example of "Transmission Company of Nigeria, that for the past seventeen years it has not been employing people, most of operators are old, some of them are inexperience therefore should be trained as part of capacity building".
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