Prof Chinedu Nebo, Power Minister
Chika Amanze-Nwachuku
The Federal Government has been urged to impose sanctions on the Power Minister or any government official who fails to meet timelines for electricity projects.
President of Nigerian Association for Energy Economics (NAEE) and a former aide of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prof. Adeola Adenikinju, made the call while briefing journalists on the association’s forthcoming 6th Annual International Conference, which holds April 22-23 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos.
He said government officials have continued to set targets, which they don’t meet at the end of the day, because defaulters had not been sanctioned in the past.
Adenikinju expressed regret that Nigeria has become a global laughing stock as a country of over 160 million people still generates only about 4,000mw of electricity. For him, the only way to get these officials in the power sector committed to their duties was to penalise those who set timelines and do not deliver.
He said: “If you have a minister that said I will deliver this, give him the backing and if he does not deliver, he has to be sanctioned. How many people have been sanctioned? People who set up timelines, give them what they need to work with and if they don’t perform, then they have to be sanctioned”.
According to him, “because nobody has sanctioned them, the timelines have continued to be bungled. We have become a laughing stock, we are generating 4000mw in a country of over 160 million people”.
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