The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows
Igali, said on Thursday that Nigeria had lost 1,800 MegaWatts of
electricity in the last one month.
Igali, who stated this at a meeting between his ministry and the
Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, in Abuja,
also attributed the deteriorating outage in the country to activities of
vandals.
He lamented that the hoodlums “went about destroying both oil and gas pipelines across the country in recent times.”
“Unfortunately, our country depends on a lot of gas. We have hydro
pipelines in Shiroro, Jebba and Kainji, which are the major ones. But in
dry season, the hydro does not do well.”
Igali, however, said security operatives had arrested about 200
people, who were vandalising gas pipelines in the last two months.
He noted that the vandals were undergoing interrogation in the custody of the security agencies.
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