Erratic power: Mcpherson Varsity’s visitor pleads for Minister’s intervention.

[FMINigeria]

                        The General Overseer of the Four-Square Gospel Church and the visitor of the faith-based institution, Macpherson University, Pastor Felix Meduoye  has requested the Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo to intervene and save the new University from near total darkness.

As a follow-up to a letter earlier written on the subject to the Ministry in 2011, the delegation which comprised of the visitor and the Governing Board members to the University, told the Minister that all efforts put in place to solve the problem from both Ibadan and Sagamu axis have proved abortive.

He described the situation as very serious, difficult to be borne by a fledging institution, adding also that the surrounding communities have not fared better.  "Nigeria deserves regular power, but all contacts with Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) regional offices have not helped as they made series of futile efforts in solving the problem".

Responding, the Minister described the reason for the visit as very important as problem shared is problem solved just as he identified power as a major component in development of scholarship in any citadel of learning.  He said, "We will first of all send our experts there to identify the problem, before giving instructions to the appropriate DISCO and or the Transmission Company of Nigeria's Chief Executive earnestly.   The rains are coming, the problematic forest might become inaccessible and we need to clear the vegetation disrupting supply".   He thus pleaded with the visiting delegation to bear with the Ministry, but was quick to assure them that the problem would be solved soon.

The Minister described as scandalous for a university community in our time to enjoy public electricity for less than forty-eight hours in five months, as power is as important as life in the contemporary time, he promised to get the problem solved soon.

Via: Federal Ministry of Information (FMI) Nigeria