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Fashola said: “With regard to our mandate on power supply, I promised The Federal Government on Monday said it was meeting its mandate of power supply through generation and supply of additional electricity to Nigerians since 2015.
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola said this at a news conference in Abuja on Monday.
Fashola, who presented his third year progress report said federal government at inception of current administration promised to improve electricity supply via incremental, stable and ultimately uninterrupted power supply.
“First by getting incremental power, then proceed to stable power and hopefully reach uninterrupted power.
“I am happy to report that we have walked our talk, and we have delivered visible results and recorded qualitative progress.“
He said government had improved on what it met in 2015 by increasing generation from 4000MW to 7000MW, transmission from 5000MW to 7000MW and distribution from 2,690MW to 5,222MW.
According to the minister, efforts were still on to deliver additional power to Nigerians.
“Our work is clearly not finished, and we are still in the process of delivering additional generation from Kaduna power plant, 215MW, Afam IV plant, 240MW, Kashimbilla 40MW, Gurara 30MW, Dadinkowa 29MW.“
He said government was also in final stage of providing power supply to nine universities and 15 markets.
Fashola said two big hydro power plants of 700MW in Zungeru and 3,050MW in Mambilla was also in the process of been generated.
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