ABUJA—The Ministry of Power, yesterday, blamed
the management of the National Assembly, NASS, for
the power outages which disrupted Wednesday’s
sitting of the Senate ad hoc committee, probing the
funds expended on the power sector since 1999.
This is just as organized labour in the nation’s power
sector expressed fears that the probe might be
another exercise in futility.
The ministry, in a statement by Mr. Timothy Oyedeji,
Deputy Director (Press), said the cause of the
frequent power outages experienced at the sitting
was not from the distribution network of Abuja
Distribution Company, DISCO.
The ministry said NASS, with its alternative source of
power supply, could have made use of its stand-by
generator for an assignment of this magnitude.
According to the statement, “the official position
about this unfortunate development is that it was the
faulty internal electricity supply system that caused
the frequent power outages and not from the
distribution network of Abuja DISCO.
“NASS, with its alternative source of power supply,
could have put on the stand-by generator for an
assignment of this magnitude, so the problem is with
its internal supply system.”
Meanwhile, the organized labour, on the platform of
National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE,
recalled that the House of Representatives
Committee on Power headed by Ndudi Elumelu
probed the same power sector and submitted its
reports, but that till date, nothing came out of it.




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