Blaming the outage on systems collapse, the ministers however, admitted lapses in the power sector resulting in about 120 million Nigerians, approximately 75 per cent of the entire population not having access to power supply in the country.Nebo also waxed spiritual when he said “there are many people who are controlled by evil forces. How can you explain a situation where people deliberately vandalise government properties? There are also people who do not want steady power supply because they are involved in the sale of generators. But what I want to say is that they will be defeated”
Briefing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, they insisted that the situation could only be redressed by huge investment in the sector.
This was just as they said that only 40 million Nigerians (about 25 per cent) were currently enjoying electricity supply.
This is coming barely a week after President Goodluck Jonathan presented a mid-term performance report of his administration’s two years in office in which he indicated remarkable improvement in the power sector.
Prof Nebo also admitted that the power situation in the country in the last three weeks had been a nightmare due to a combination of system failure and human sabotage
He hinted that they had also made presentation to council on Key Performance indicators KPI of the ministry in 2012 and said, “The power situation in the last three weeks is a nightmare. We have not had the kind of system failure like we have had in the last three weeks. For instance, Bayelsa state was knocked out for three weeks as a result of a breakdown on one of the transmission lines. It took about 10 to 12 days to restore power in the state using temporary measures. Another one happened in Kebbi.”
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