In a rather shocking admission on the cause of Nigeria’s incessant power outage, the minister of state for power, Hajiya Zainab Kuchi yesterday, told a group of South African investors that evil spirits were preventing the country from achieving sustainable electricity supply.
While addressing members of the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Ruling Party, which was on a working visit to the country in her Abuja office, the minister said, “We must resolve to jointly exorcise the evil spirit behind this darkness and allow this nation take its pride of peace in the comity of Nations.”
The minister in a statement by the Deputy Director/Head of Press of the ministry, Greyne Anosike, said, “Nigeria needs help, any nation that loves Nigeria must collaborate with it now to resolve her energy crisis…We are getting irritatingly slow.”
She told the delegation that Nigeria has a structured response to her power challenges with a Roadmap it is implementing with care and diligence and asked them to study the power sector roadmap and come up with their specific area of interest, assuring that there were a lot of gaps to be filled in the sector.
The Minister said that work had reached various stages of completion in rehabilitating some of the moribund power stations scattered across the country pointing out that, the revival of the abandoned power projects was critical in lifting the sector as billions of funds had been sunk into them.
While expressing confidence in the present administration’s determination to break the jinx in the power sector, the minister said, “It would amount to lavish diseconomy to embark on new project and abandon the old ones in which huge tax payers resources had been sunk.”
