The Minister of Power, Works and
Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has stated the conditions that must be met
for Nigerians to enjoy uninterrupted electricity supply.
The minister, who spoke to journalists
in Kaduna at the end of the second edition of the National Council on
Power on Thursday, said unless hoodlums stopped vandalising gas
pipelines, the epileptic power supply would persist.
Stable electricity, according to him, will only be achievable when contractors execute power contracts properly.
Fashola noted that host communities of
electricity assets must also understand that they must make sacrifices
so that the nation could benefit.
This is just as the Kaduna State
Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, called for proper restructuring of the
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to ensure viable power supply
in the country.
The governor said unless that was done,
potential private investors would continue to shy away from investing in
the power sector.
El-Rufai lamented the poor regulatory
policy framework in the power sector, noting that currently, the
distribution companies were struggling under huge debts.
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