BEVERLY HILLS, April 15, (THEWILL) – The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has said the power outages across the country were due to gas constraints, maintenance of Jebba Power Plant and water shortage management in Shiroro plant.
The Minister, in a statement issued on Thursday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Aaron Artimas, said recent epileptic electricity supply was caused by the “breakdown of some National Integrated Power Plants supplying electricity to the national grid.”
He listed the faulty plants as that of “Sapele, Afam,Olonrunsogo, Omotosho, Ibom, Egbin, Alaoji and Ihovbor. The Jebba Power Plant was shut down for annual maintenance.
“Seven other integrated Power plants, namely Geregu, Sepele, Omotosho, Gbarain, Omuku, Paras and Alaoji are experiencing gas constraints while the Shiroro plant has water management problems.”
He described the situation as an unfortunate development that has drastically affected Power generation, thus effectively minimising the national grid.
He added:“In view of this, the Minister of Power Engr Sale Mamman regrets this unfortunate situation and offers his sincere apology to all affected Nigerians on the inconveniences the Power shortages are causing.
”He assures that the ministry through the appropriate Agencies is working assiduously to rectify the technical problems affecting the plants as well as resolving the gas issues to the others.
“Engr Sale Mamman further assures that the national grid will be restored to its previous historic distribution peak of about 5,600MW of electricity achieved early this year, so as to relief Nigerians from the current harsh climatic conditions and restore full economic activities.
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