FG Explains Power Drop, To Commission 10 NIPP

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 THE federal government has blamed the ongoing repair at the Shiroro Power Plant in Niger State as the main factor responsible for the drop in power supply currently being experienced in the country.

However, it assured Nigerians of improved power supply as soon as the repair works are completed. This is even as it re-stated its determination to work towards meeting the projected 10,000 megawatts.

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State and the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Power, Godknows Igali while addressing State House Press after the 27th Board meeting of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) in Abuja, also unveiled a phased commissioning programme of 10 National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) across the country.

Rising from the meeting chaired by the Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo, Suswam announced that a special committee to embark on a road show before the privatisation of the 10 NIPP projects to foreign nations would be announced at the next board meeting of the NDPHC.

He said the meeting focused on the commissioning of NIPP projects, the privatisation of the companies for efficient management of the company and the road show to market the companies in various countries before the privatisation.

Suswam said: "We want to embark on a road show before the privatisation proper will commence. We want to generate interest and find very competent companies or enterprises that can manage these companies properly. With that, there will be a committee that will be set up for that purpose.

"It is not going to be done by the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE), it is going to be done by a special committee that we will be set up by the NDPHC Board. At the next meeting of the board, we will probably be able to have the people that will constitute the committee for the purpose of these companies."

On why there was drop in power supply, Suswam said, "I think that happened because Shiroro plant was off for quite sometime and that also accounted for the drop. We need to engage in maintenance and that is back on track now. I think that the drop has been addressed."

Igali, who also shed more light on the development, said: "I don't think it will be completely fair to say that we have witnessed a considerable drop. We are on track; we are ensuring that we have appropriate generation level, distribution level and transmission level on track."



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[Folami David]

They should not even try to blame power drop on anything because it has always been like that. FG is looking for an excuse