Nigerians have been assured of a stable electricity supply in major
cities by end of the second quarter of 2013. This assurance was given by
President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday, in Islamabad, Pakistan at an
interactive session with the Nigerian community living there.
The event hosted by the Nigerian High Commissioner to Pakistan,
Dauda Danladi, was part of the activities on the sidelines of the Summit
of Eight Developing Nations (D-8) being attended by the President in
Islamabad. In his response to questions raised by some of the guests,
the President revealed his administration had overcome the challenges of
power generation to a very large extent. He also evacuation of the
generated electricity due to poor infrastructure as the major challenge.
“Presently, we are generating more than what our transmission
capability can evacuate. We have over 1000 megawatts of power that we
cannot evacuate because of the transmission infrastructure that have
been weak over the years and it was very recently that government
started the intervention.
“But, we have projects that are going on, so before the end of the
second quarter, almost middle of next year, most of these projects would
have been inaugurated and we will be evacuating power generated. At
that time, quite a number of cities will begin to have 24 hour of light.
“When we get to that point you will see that small scale enterprises
will begin to make returns and that is the way we can create jobs,” he
said. The President told the gathering that his administration had also
made improvements on other sectors like roads, aviation, Agriculture and
other infrastructure.
The prersident explained that the set- back in achieving the set
target was largely due to the devastating flood that ravaged some States
across the country. “We have the major flood that really set us back in
some areas, otherwise we promised Nigerians that those of them who are
in the Diaspora, when they come home this Christmas they would see
significant changes.
“The kind of Airports they will pass through, then the roads they
will drive from the airports to the cities and when they enter the
cities may be you are used to not seeing light and putting on generator,
you will not begin your stay by talking about the price of diesel again
because you will have light throughout.
“We may not be able to achieve all that by December, because within
the flood period, we could not work. Things that we had expected to
finish by December, were halted within the flood, there was stagnation
everywhere,” he said.
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