Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Professor Howells Hart, has accused the federal government lacks the transparency and political will to tackle the challenges facing the country’s power sector.
Hart made this comment while speaking at the 2012 Mechanical Engineers Distinguished Lecture, organised by the Nigeria Institution of Mechanical Engineers (NIMechE) in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
He revealed that Nigeria, with a population of about 160 million people, generates less that 5,000 mega watts compared with South Africa with a population of about 50 million generating about 50,000 mega watts.
Hart listed some of the challenges facing the country’s power sector to include lack of proper co-ordination in the sector, the scramble for Nigeria’s power sector, and the problem of labour in, and for, the system.
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