Former minister of power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, yesterday attributed poor power supply across the country to poor enforcement of discipline by regulatory agencies.
Nnaji, who oversaw the deregulation of the nation’s power sector and the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, told the Senate ad-hoc Committee on Power when he appeared before it yesterday that about half of the power being generated by the various generating companies does not get to the consumers as a result of poor transmission.
He noted that only 5, 500 out of the 12, 000 megawatts installed capacity was getting to the consumers and that the gas being delivered for power generation was a fraction of the installed capacity which would not affect the quantity meant for export through the Liquefied Natural Gas.
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