Former Lagos state Governor now Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, has opened up on the challenges facing the nation’s power sector.
The Power minister in an interview with Channels TV yesterday admitted that he has not visited all the power plants yet. He however promised to do so in order to fully understand the problem facing the Nigerian power sector and what is left to be managed in order to revive the sector.
The Power minister however noted that the country has been in pursuance of generating sustainable energy for 66 years, he added: “I’m a thinking person and I’m always looking for solutions to solutions. When I’ve found one solution, I’m not always convinced that it’s the best solution, so even when I’m implementing it, I’m looking for ways to make it better.”
Speaking on power generation, he said: “One whole year perhaps wouldn’t be enough. But every power plant I go to, every transmission facility I see, every substation that I visit… I visited a nuclear manufacturing plant privately set up a few weeks ago, everything that I saw convinced me that it can be done. The more I see, the more I believe we can solve it.”
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