Indications that Nigerians may experience more of power blackouts in the coming weeks emerged yesterday from the disclosure made by Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali that within the last....
five weeks, power generation has dropped from 4,500mw to 2,700 mw.
Igali, who made the disclosure to journalists at the National Assembly after briefing the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, said Gas and crude Oil pipeline vandals were responsible for the drastic drop in power generation. He said the high rate of vandalism carried out by vandals on both oil and gas pipelines across the country within the last five weeks have made the country to lose 1,800 mw of power generation, which was 4,500mw as at 4 April but now dropped to 2,700 mw.
The current power outages being experienced by electricity consumers across the country, according to him, are caused by the vandals, who he said carry out their nefarious acts on daily basis.
According to him, as a way of preventing them from throwing the entire country into blackout, security agencies have swung into action against the vandals, with 200 of them already in the nets of the agencies, for the prosecution.
He said: “We have been able to explain to electricity consumers that the current power outrage is as a result of high rate of pipeline vandalism. They vandalise both the crude pipelines and gas pipelines on daily basis.
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