As
if to call the bluff of President Muhammadu Buhari’s pronouncement to generate
10,000 megawatts, MW, by 2019, output from the generating plants dropped to as
low as 2,841MW by mid-day, yesterday.
Data from the Nigerian Systems Operations Department of the Transmission
Company of Nigeria, TCN, website, www.nsong.org, indicated that the situation
had gone even worse with generation dropping again to 2,841.90MW as at 12:42pm,
yesterday.
The
President’s declaration, Tuesday has attracted a lot of scepticisms from
various stakeholders, who argued that it was a mission impossible given the
current state of the Nigerian power sector, which is characterised by weak and
obsolete system.
They noted further that 10,000MW was not a new power target,
considering that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had also touted the same
capacity target for 2010, which never came to pass till date.
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