The Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo has said that the power sector is at the threshold of stopping incessant system collapses, as the investigative panel’s report will provide the much needed Road-Map in taming the monster.
Speaking Tuesday in Abuja while receiving the investigative panel’s report, who he earlier gave a two-week matching order, the Minister said that soon Nigerians will heave a sigh of relief as there would soon be reliable and uninterrupted power supply.
He reminded Nigerians that President Goodluck Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda is anchored on priority attention to the power sector as it is the bedrock of the nation’s quest for prosperity.
Debunking the notion that Committees are often times “all time wasting strategy”, the Minister of Power, Professor Nebo while receiving a report by the Olapade led Panel to investigate incessant collapses in the power system in recent times asked the Committee to stay and ensure the full implementation of its findings.
Professor Nebo commended the Panel for its doggedness and thorough work, as it has turned in the report within a record time. He described the feat as truly a manifestation of a new Nigeria and indeed a new dawn for the power sector.
He promised to meticulously study the report with a view to implementing its finding without any hesitation, just as he said that the efforts of the panel to unravel things that are simple, which only required effortless method in correcting.
He challenged the panelists to study the report in order to implement what they have recommended. “Since the report is your creation, you will own it, see to it that the recipe, panacea, and solutions are religiously followed, so that nothing is lost to chances”.
Pleading with Nigerians to show greater understanding to the very difficult situation, the sector is faced with, the Minister said some problems are man-made, while others are fallout of underfunding resulting in long years of neglect, the mother of the problem now is vandalism.
He tasked Nigerians to be mature as a people with new thinking of seeing public infrastructure maintenance as sacred trust that must never be abused adding that nothing must be done to undermine the growth and the economic stability of our country.
Speaking earlier at the brief ceremony, the Chairman of the Panel, a retired professional in the sector, Engr. Fatai Olapade said the panel had some challenges that were outside its terms of reference, yet was able to deliver within the record time. He spoke extensively on the damage done to the system by vandals, blaming the menace of system collapses more on these unpatriotic individuals.
He cited the last system collapse which led to loss of over 1,000 megawatts to vandalism which resulted in stoppage of gas supply required to fire electricity plants.
Timothy Oyedeji
Deputy Director/Head of Press
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