Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has revealed the steps being taken by his administration to actualise the promise to provide uninterrupted 24-hour power supply in Port Harcourt and the entire Nigeraia’s southsouth state from December this year.
Governor Amaechi made the explanation, Sunday, during the second Dissecting The Amaechi Administration Media Briefing Series, at Government House, Port Harcourt, where he was represented by the Commissioner for Power, Augustine Nwokocha.
Nwokocha disclosed that N30 billion has been set aside to ensure that the administration meets this target.
He said what the Rivers State Government is doing to get 24-hour power supply this year is “to generate enough capacity, have a robust transmission infrastructure that will take the power to the people, to their neighbourhood and then have a very solid distribution infrastructure that will take it to their routes. And so we are addressing these three things – Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution”.
He further said, “and unlike the previous system where they were all given to one person, here we have a total of 10 outfits doing different things to ensure that we deliver on time”.
He said that what the state government has done differently is that it has divided this work into smaller units that are deliverable, faster and better.
It has also focused on getting the quality of men that can deliver this work and deliver them well.
“We have got Saipem Nigeria Limited to build a power substation. We have Weltech doing a medium voltage substation… We have selected people in that category, people who we believe can deliver based on their track record. Currently we are pursuing vigorously the transmission aspect of our power project,” he said.
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