Beks Dagogo-Jack
Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP), Beks Dagogo-Jack, recently spoke to Chineme Okafor on challenges in Nigeria’s electricity industry, which had seen the supply fluctuate repeatedly. Excerpts:
The government said power generation averages 4,500mw, are we actually on 4,500MW?
No, we are not, but you can pick the exact figure from the control centre. We are not on 4,500mw and that doesn’t have to be a speculated data, it is a fact. The figure changes every day because it is a lot of dynamics that produce energy on-grid
Even when we got to 4500 megawatts, we didn’t stay there for a very long time, but we made history that at some points we reached boundaries that were thought impossible based on the deficiencies that were in our system. All we did was to get people to think differently, own up their small targets and this happened while the taskforce was reconstituted and whilst there was a sense that certain things have happened in the sector and there was going to be complete reversal of progress and there were even fears that the reforms were going to collapse.
Even when we got to 4500 megawatts, we didn’t stay there for a very long time, but we made history that at some points we reached boundaries that were thought impossible based on the deficiencies that were in our system. All we did was to get people to think differently, own up their small targets and this happened while the taskforce was reconstituted and whilst there was a sense that certain things have happened in the sector and there was going to be complete reversal of progress and there were even fears that the reforms were going to collapse.
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