On Tuesday, the House of Representatives Committee on Power decried the prolonged power outages across Nigeria, expressing hopelessness that things may never work until the expiration of their tenure.

Magaji Aliyu, the House Committee on Power chairman, expressed displeasure with the Ministry of Power when its permanent secretary, Nebeolisa Anako, appeared before the committee.

“In this country, there is no fuel, no light and no gas. We were told we have 30,000 megawatts, but that only transmission is our problem.

He added, “My heart bleeds for this country, we may never have it right may be during our time.”

Mr Aliyu lamented that Nigerians were currently experiencing one of the worst moments of electricity supply across the country.

He urged the ministry also to explain the ministry’s technical, operational, and administrative measures to address the challenges and their devastating consequences on Nigerians.

Ajibola Muraina (PDP-Oyo) said the power outage problem was not just starting now, adding that every year there is usually a shortage of water, without measure to correct the anomaly.

On his part, Sada Soli (APC-Katsina) said, “I don’t think the ministry of power is in charge because they don’t see it as their responsibility to deliver power to Nigerians.”

Meanwhile, in her contribution, Mariam Onoha (APC-Imo) stated, “I want to assume that there is some level of conspiracy of bringing the government down as we approach the electioneering year.”

Responding, the permanent secretary said that the ministry had a lot of issues in the Nigeria electricity supply crisis, adding that it is working to resolve the issue.

He said that in spite of improvements in power generation to a peak of 5,800MW last year, and an average available generation of 5,000MW, recent events had seen a temporary crash in generation by about 1,600MW.

(NAN)