ABUJA - The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, has said that the country had lost about 35 per cent of its capacity to generate electricity to vandalism resulting in damages to power installations.
“Currently, we have lost about 35 per cent of our capacity to generate power simply because of vandalism,’’ he said at the opening of a two-day Stakeholders Forum on “Protection of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure ’’.
Nebo equated vandalism of national assets to declaration of war on the country.
“I have always considered vandalism of national assets and infrastructure as a moral equivalent of war, it is as if vandals are declaring war against Nigeria.
“We are bleeding from the effects; one way or the other as the economy bleeds as result of vandalism of critical assets and infrastructure, all of us suffer.
“When the power sector lose in that fraction, virtually all the other sectors are affected; when transmission sub-stations are hit, our capacity to transmit power that is actually generated falls below expectation,’’ he said.
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