As the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing strives to
improve the country’s power supply, it is also making budgetary
proposals for the purchase, maintenance and fuelling of generators at
its headquarters and various agencies.
The 2019 budget proposal revealed that at the headquarters of the
power ministry, a total sum of N26.6m was budgeted for maintenance of
plants/generators, while plant/generator fuel cost was put at N16.3m.
An analysis of the 2019 budget proposal of the FMPWH that was recently
submitted by President Buhari to the National Assembly showed that the
ministry and its agencies had proposed to spend N167.96m this year on
the purchase, maintenance and fuelling of generators/plants.
Nigeria currently generates and distributes an average of 4,000
megawatts of electricity and the sector is still suffering from a
serious liquidity crisis despite being privatised since November 1,
2013.
The 2019 budget proposal revealed that at the headquarters of the power
ministry, a total sum of N26.6m was budgeted for maintenance of
plants/generators, while plant/generator fuel cost was put at N16.3m.
The FMPWH headquarters also made a budget proposal of N50m for the
purchase of generators. The National Rural Electrification Agency
proposed to spend N488, 000 on the maintenance of plants and generators,
while N1.55m was budgeted as fuel cost for its plants and generators.
In its 2019 budget proposal, the Nigerian Electricity Management
Services Agency’s headquarters proposed to spend N2m on maintenance of
plants and generators. It plans to spend N4m to fuel the plants and
generators in 2019. The National Power Training Institute made a
proposal of N1.5m for the maintenance of plants and generators and
intends to spend another N1.5m for the fuelling of the equipment.
The Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Limited proposed N2.3m
and N3.31m for the maintenance and fuel cost of plants/generators
respectively, while the Office of the Surveyor-General of the
Federation, under the works arm of the FMPWH, proposed N3.1m and N5.84m
for the maintenance and fuelling of its plants/generators