Fashola: Expect Steady Power Supply This Year

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, has called on Nigerians to expect steady power supply this year, 2017.
Fashola stated this while making his opening aaddress as Guest Speaker at the January edition of the Nextier Power Dialogue on Saturday.
According to him, such policies would help realise a deepening of metering, sanctions for energy theft and better contract performance from Operators in the Power Sector as well as help achieve the financial strengthening of the Nigerian Bulk Energy Trading PLC (NBET).
Fashola said the government was working towards implementing policies that would improve gas and power supplies.
He informed his audience that, “Clearly these policies constitute the way forward and ensures that everybody in the system gets paid. If we have that, at least, we can be sure that those who are supplying gas will not be shutting down because their creditors are pulling them. Then we go to the other side that is angry to see what we can do because gas problem is exacerbated on both sides”.
The former Lagos State governor, who also explained the reason for the nationwide blackout, blamed the sabotage of gas pipelines by those he described as “some of our angry brothers.”
The Minister, who admitted that there had been some outages across the country in the last 24 hours, however, assured Nigerians that himself, the Permanent Secretary and other officials of the Ministry were trying to see what they could do to rectify the situation.