The
Minister of State for Power, Hajiya Zainab Kuchi, yesterday told South
African investors that evil spirit were behind Nigeria’s darkness
preventing the country from taking her pride of place in the comity of
Nations.
While addressing members of the African National Congress (ANC), the
South African Ruling Party, which led a team of investors to her office
in Abuja, 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 filed in the sector.
The Minister said that work had reached various stages of completion
in rehabilitating some of the moribund power stations littering the
landscape 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.
“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,”
she said, and added that she was confident that the present
Administration is determined to make a difference in this sector and
break the jinx.
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