Hon Minister of Power, Works & Housing Mr Babatunde Fashola,SAN(left), Managing Director/CEO, Transmission Company of Nigeria(TCN), Mr Usman Gur Mohammed(middle), The Ojon of Ejigbo & Ijan Kingdom Imakiyo II, Oba Moroof Adekunle Adissa Ojola(2nd left) and others during the commissioning of the 2 x 100MVA, 132 /33KV Power Transformers at the Ejigbo Transmission Substation, Ejigbo L.C.D.A (Oshodi/Isolo LGA), Lagos State on Thursday 18, October 2018.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that electricity supply in the country is improving slowly and, thanks to the work by his ministry in the last 3 years.
According to Punch, he made this known on Thursday at the inauguration of the 2x100MVA, 132/33kV power transformers at the Ejigbo Transmission Substation, Lagos.
“We have come to hand over this expanded transmission substation, the Ejigbo Transmission Substation, to the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company. This substation was built in 1970; the capacity was 60MVA then; except for the addition of another 60MVA, this community has grown exponentially; so they have exceeded the installed capacity here.Between that time and when President Buhari came three years ago, some people were there. But they will come back to you; so, when they come back, ask them if they didn’t know where to buy transformers.The problem of electricity is slowly being solved, one by one. Anybody will tell you he will do magic; tell him, ‘How?’ He should explain to you. We inherited 800 containers for power equipment left in the port for 10 years. President Buhari gave us approval, and we have recovered 690,” the minister said.
The minister said the capacity of the substation had been increased from 120MVA to 300MVA.
There are 90 transmission projects ongoing across the country, Fashola said.
“If you look at it, between 2015 and now, you ask yourself honestly: Are you spending more on diesel now or before? Are you running your generators for longer today or yesterday? So, are you seeing the power slowly staying longer? If you are truthful to yourself, you will know that it is better than yesterday. And we haven’t finished,” he said.
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