• Says consumers partly responsible for outage
AS the Federal Government continues to falter in matters concerning increased power generation and supply, as well as privatisation of the sector, the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) has provided further insights into the reason it was reviewing the Power Sector Roadmap developed in 2010, noting that the move was not “policy somersault.”
The government also assured Nigerians once again that the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration would surmount “all the daunting obstacles, which had overwhelmed several past governments and shall, by God’s grace, take Nigerians to the Promised Land,” according to a statement issued Sunday after the fifth board meeting of Task Force on Power.
“Let’s face it, with our population of over 160 million people living in over 25 million households, the current available peak power of 4500MW is just a tiny drop in the ocean. This is why we are having the blackouts,” Chairman of PTFP, Beks Dagogo-Jack, said.
“The load shedding, which was increasing lately, has its origins in the fact that once consumers witnessed increasing supply and reliability, previously suppressed or migrated demand started returning to the grid.
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