Nasir el-Rufai, governor of
Kaduna state, has been appointed as the head of the ad-hoc committee that will
review the ownership of the electricity distribution companies (DisCos).
The decision was reached on
Thursday at the meeting of the national economic council (NEC).
Emeka Ihedioha, governor of Imo
state, announced the committee’s decision after the meeting saying the National
Council on Privatisation and Bureau of Public Procurement would serve on the
committee.
Governors representing the six
geo-political zones on the Board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company will
serve on the review committee.
The power sector was privatised
in 2013 resulting in six generation companies and 11 distribution companies.
At its sitting on Tuesday, the
senate had resolved to probe the challenges of electricity supply after a
motion moved by Chukwuka Utazi, the senator representing Enugu north.
“The northern part of the country
with a vast expanse of land can tap into large solar farms while the southern
parts of the country with significant reserves of natural gas and coal can
generate power from same,” Utazi explained saying Nigeria can set a target of
100,000 megawatts in the next 10 years by a mixture of energy sources such as natural
gas, hydro, coal, wind and renewable energy.
“Both the north and South have
large water bodies that can still be dammed for hydro.”
Saying the problem doesn’t only
lie with generation companies, Utazi said distribution companies also lack the
financial and technical capacity to carry out their functions.
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