FG Pledges Completion Of Inherited Transmission Projects

Honourable Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu with Head of Agencies in Ministry of Power during a press briefing in Abuja.

The Honourable Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu has pledged that the federal government will complete all the inherited and abandoned transmission projects in the country.

Adelabu who made the pledge on Wednesday during a press briefing in Abuja said that the number of inherited projects in the transmission value chain of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry alone is over one hundred.

He said that "there are many issues facing the power sector in Nigeria. Most of these issues look simple but complicated. From Generation, to Transmission, to Distribution; we've identified them and have designed strategies to address. 

This government inherited over hundred abandoned transmission projects. The youngest is about eleven or twelve years old. Some are over 20 years. I have told the MD of TCN that we are not going to start any major project until we complete all these projects. Some of these projects were politically established but we'll ensure we complete all to expand the grid and boost TCN's capacity to wheel more power to distribution companies".

On his part, MD/CEO of TCN, Engr. (Dr.) Sule Abdulaziz assured that the management will refocused it attention into completing all inherited and abandoned projects in the next six months to one year.

Abdulaziz said that "like the Honourable Minister has said, there are some projects that we inherited that we must expedite actions to complete. We'll put in more money into these projects to ensure that we complete as many as we can in the next six months to one year. 

I also want to add that, we're working and investing massively in grid expansion. Since the assumption of office of the new administration, we've completed and commissioned more than twenty power transformer projects. We want to also invite the Honourable Minister that when he's free, he should join us to commission more that we've completed in the last eight months".