Expert Urges FG To Generate More Power

An expert in the Nigerian power sector, Engineer Isaac Adekanya, has urged the Federal Government to generate more energy  to serve the power needs of the nation.
The expert who spoke with The Tide in an interview also called for the total liberation of the power sector to allow room for a professionally and institutionally driven power sector delivery.
He attributed the low turn-out in the power sector service delivery to the prioritisation of  political and commercial  interests on the allocation of the DISCOS, TRANCOS, and GENCOS, at the expense of professionalism and delivery capacity..
The expert who called for more drastic reforms in the power sector said power generation should be  liberalised for intense private sector involvement to provide the power needs of the people.
He urged that more attention should be centred on transmission of power, with an adroit check on energy theft and other related challenges.
According to him, “ experts in the power sector should be given the opportunity to make inputs in the formulation of policies and implementation in the power sector, a system in which power sector reforms are devoid of the active participation of the experts in the sector can not bring out the best results, power sector is service sector and efficient economic expansion and enterprise development depends on it.”
Adekanya, a former president of the Port Harcourt branch of the Nigeria Association of Electrical Electronics Engineers, also called for a stronger synergy between academic institutions and the industry in the area of research, information and training.
He said, “to achieve the vision and objectives in the power sector, the academic institutions and the industry must enjoy  a robust parttnership, while the industry provides the fund, the institutions provide the information.”

By: Taneh Beemene