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.