The new owners of power companies in Nigeria have been tasked to ensure stable electricity supply in the country by June 2014. This charge was made by the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, on Monday at event held in Abuja.
Namadi, addressing stakeholders in the power sector at the opening ceremony of the Power Sector and Infrastructure Financing Conference, said, “it is a sacred promise made to Nigerians and the government cannot deliver less. It is a task that must be done.”
He added that for Nigerians to have confidence in the present administration, there must be a visible and appreciable results in the power sector. He stressed the need for the companies to provide Nigerians with stable power supply, a development, he said, would improve the standard of living of Nigerians.
“The Power sector is very critical to the attainment of our national development goals. Our commitment to the principle of greater service delivery in this sector remains strong and unshakable, giving its strategic importance to the development of our country,” Sambo stressed.
“We must fundamentally reorganise the power sector to improve performance as well as increase our generation capacity to meet both industrial and domestic needs of our nation. The reform will conceptualise as one of the drivers of our transformation agenda and the cornerstone of our overall national development plan,” noted the nation’s number citizen.
Power Reforms: Sambo Tasks New Owners http://t.co/BrOM5SfL7G