Past Governments Ensured Power Generation Didn’t Improve – Lai Mohammed

Lai Mohammed had disclosed that the past governments abandoned 800 containers of power equipment meant to help boost power generation in the country.

The minister made this known when he featured on a national television on Saturday to discuss on the state of the nation.

He said the containers were abandoned because contractors were not paid.

He, however, noted that the present government in its determination to boost power supply was able to retrieve 690 of those containers.

He said the contractors had also been paid and mobilised to site, adding that the effort had yielded positive result.

“How many hours of power did we have. When we came in all the GENCOs were generating were under 5000 megawatt, which we have been able to raise to 7000.

“Today people who live in part of Ondo that have not seen power for 10 years will tell you they now have power.

“As a matter of fact, not only do we generate 7000 megawatt of power, by the end of this year we will generate additional 2000 megawatt,’’ he said.

On challenges of power distribution, the minister said the government had put measures in place to solve the problem.

“If once in a while there is problem in distribution, it is not about generation.

“Yes there is this disconnect between the generation and distribution and this is where the government has come in to help the distribution companies through a programme called the Distribution Expansion Project,’’ he said.