SPEAKER DOGARA QUERIES 2.74 TRILLION NAIRA UTILIZATION ON POWER SECTOR AND DARKNESS STILL PERVADES THE COUNTRY.

 

House of Representative Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara has queried the utilisation of two point seventy four trillion naira spent on the power sector from 1999-2015.

Speaking at a 2-day stakeholders Interactive dialogue on the Nigerian Power Sector organised by the National Assembly, at Transcorp Hilton Abuja, Dogara noted that the challenges faced by the sector calls for concerted efforts by all stakeholders to address them.

The Speaker said it is in order to change the epileptic power situation that the National Assembly organized the workshop as a platform for power sector experts and other stakeholders to do a holistic diagnosis of the challenges impeding the development of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) and proffer practical solutions.

Dogara also urged the participants to focus on the following questions with an aim to finding answers that will lead to the repositioning of the power sector for effective delivery to Nigerians.

He queried why power generation remained at less than 5000MW since the last 56 years inspite of various policies of successive government