Some States Now Enjoy Constant Power – Fashola

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has stated that some cities in the country now enjoy constant electricity.

He made this known during an interview section on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday.

“Sitting down here I can tell you some states that have almost 24 hours – Kebbi, Yobe. Some have five, some have 10 and there are still outages,” Fashola said.

According to the minister, the country’s transmission capacity has grown to about 8,100 watts as of December 2018.

He added that the constant power supply in some states is due to the increase in the transmission capacity.

The former governor of Lagos State also spoke about programmes which the ministry have put in place to ensure adequate power supply across the nation.

“The government has decided that as 40 per cent holder of everything in the distribution of power, we have our programme to invest N72 billion which will involve installing transformers and all of that.

“We created a metre access provider regulation. What it does is to create a new plan of investment programme. We manufacture, produce, supply and install metres and fill the gap the distribution companies cannot raise capital to fill. They cannot do so alone, they must do so under a procurement policy with the distribution company,” he said.

He stated that the Federal Government will solve the problems of poor power supply in the country and will continue to keep the people informed as to the watts being consumed in the country.

Also, watch BBC Africa documentary on Nigeria’s power problem.