Again: The promise of 24/7 Power by the Minister of Power - SOON AS USUAL

The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, on Sunday reassured Nigerians, especially industrialists, of steady electricity supply in a very short time.

Nebo gave the assurance at the investiture of the newly elected president and council of the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA) in Enugu.

According to him, downturn in the power sector is only temporal and that government is doing everything possible to provide stable electricity.

“Lots of work is being done. Government is putting the right mechanisms to ensure adequate electricity 24/7,’’ he said.

Nebo praised industrialists for their steadfastness, urging them to support government’s endeavour toward making them succeed.

The minister said that the Federal Government had commenced the mapping out of industrial and agricultural clusters across the country with a view to giving them electricity.

“Industry and manufacturing are keys to economic development and give a double digit growth to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP),’’ he said.

The Chairman, National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Sam Amadi, said that privatisation was a major component factor in the power sector reform.

“The establishment of a competitive electricity market with free entry and exit for private providers is the major objective of the power sector reform in Nigeria,’’ Amadi said.

Amadi urged Nigerians to stop politicising power, saying that to privatise power was not an easy process.
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