FASHOLA:5000MW ELECTRICITY NOT ENOUGH FOR NIGERIA POPULATION.

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has decried the prolonged power supply crises in the country just as the current generation capacity is less than 5,000  ‎megawatts.

Fashola said 5,000 megawatts of power was far insufficient for over 170 million Nigerians.

The minister, who spoke in Abuja yesterday when he received the Director General of the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), Mrs. Dupe Atoki, promised to raise standards in the quality and quantity of service in the electricity ‎supply chain.

Fashola said it, therefore, became imperative for the private sector to support the Federal Government’s various efforts to boost power generation and embrace the new multi-year tariff order to consumers.

He also said the Credited Advance Payment for Metering Initiative (CAPMI) which has become one of the challenges to consumers should be resolved soon, stating that, “you cannot take peoples’ money without providing the service for which they have paid. I was uncomfortable with that”.

The former Lagos State governor said the ministry has ordered that the scheme be wound down so that people could get what they have paid for, adding that it is the responsibility of the DisCos’ to provide meters for their consumers, and so wind down what they had collected.

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