Fashola To Install Solar Power In Public Schools

Lagos State Govern
ment has embarked on provision of Solar Power to all public schools in the state.
The state governor, Babatunde Fashola, who announced this in Ikeja said the state executive council has already given approval to the project and that 172 schools would benefit in the first phase of the project.
Fashola, who further disclosed that the first phase would be broken into two sub-phases assured that about 35 schools in the riverine and rural areas of the state would be fully hit up and solar powered before the end of this year.
According to him, his administration would be decommissioning over 800 generators in all the public schools by the time the project is concluded.
He also said that the state Water Corporation had started to install pipelines for direct water supply to about 600 schools in the state as a first phase of ensuring that all the state public schools get direct water supply.
He explained that his focus on electricity for the up-coming generation as the way forward was based on his belief that if their capacity was developed they would be able to improve the nation’s power sector.
Fashola expressed regret that lack of adequate electricity supply was keeping Nigeria in poverty.