Mohammed Shosanya
The Chairman, Senate Committee on power, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe,says African countries are mocking Nigeria over its epileptic power supply.
He lamented that some of these countries of Africa are making a joke of Nigeria as a generator country, where no one can do anything without having a private generator which is not acceptable.
He spoke when he led members of the Committee to the Ministry of Power for an oversight visit to the Ministry and also the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
“When you said you have over 8000MW installed capacity. Since the privatization started is something more of inconsistency, once it goes up to 5000MW, it will come down. And these have happened in the past 20 years. And so we are here, to hear directly from TCN what the problems are and are there anything we can do to using the law to make Nigeria one of the countries that don’t have to pretend on their own installed capacity.
You can see the number of senators that are here which shows that everyone is concerned” he said.
He also spoke on the Incessant electricity grid collapses which have become all frequent in Nigeria’s power sector.
He explained thst the oversight visit became necessary to find out the challenges that have led to poor supply of electricity to Nigerians and also the reasons for the consistent collapses of the national grid.
Abaribe disclosed that on 29th April 2024, the Committee would convene an investigative hearing into the issue of tariff hike without relevant stakeholders in the sector.
