Minister of State for Power, Mr. Clems Agba has not only agreed that there has been unprecedented nationwide power outages, also assured that the epileptic power supply witnessed in recent times in different parts of the country would soon be a thing of the past.
The minister said that power generation and distribution would improve in spite of the coming of rains.
Abga said: “You’ll agree with me that of late, we’ve had problems with gas supplies for generational companies.
“We just negotiated with the gas supply companies, NNPC limited to augment gas supplies to distributors at the going local rate.
“Gas was sold to them at export rate, whose price differs and they collection was made on domestic rates.
”So, there was a differential and we had an agreement with the NNPCL and natural gas company to supply gas to GENCOs.”
According to Abga, this commenced from last week, and they are buying at the local price not at the export price.
He added: “So, with that, we hope in the very near future, in a week or two, we should have improved generation and supply.
“Distribution is going to be done by DISCOs which is why we are doing everything possible for the transmission company to have all the equipment necessary for effective transmission.
“We hope and I assure you that power generation and distribution will improve in spite of the rains that have come in now.”
