EKO HOT BLOG reports that Abubakar Aliyu, minister of power, has blamed poor power generation and distribution in Nigeria on the continuous collapse of transmission and distribution lines.
According to him, the federal government is working hard to improve power supply in the country.
Aliyu said this on Tuesday in Markudi when he paid a courtesy visit to Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue.
The Power Minister was accompanied by the Minister for State, Power, Goddy Agba.
“Power is one area that has been receiving attention of this Federal Government. We know that the government owns 40 percent of the distribution. The National grid is controlled from Osogbo and must receive enough energy to transmit power. Government has set out to rehabilitate the transmission grid and we are beginning to see results,” he said.
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“Our national transmission has not increase from 5,000 Mega Watts but it has not dropped. We used to have more than 15 to 17 system collapses in the past but we only experienced two in 2021.
“We will see improve this year 2022. It is a year of delivery. The Yandev to Makurdi transmission line will also be completed within six months,” he assured.
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