Fashola Lists conditions for regular power supply

Firsclass Newsline gathered that 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.