Buhari Inaugurates Lafia Power-Sub-Station
From Ajegena Manga
Lafia
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated 330/132/33KV sub-station at Akurba community of Lafia, Nasarawa State capital.
The power sub-station was part of the projects marked out for inauguration by the President during his two-day official visit to Nasarawa State.
The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that the President who did not make speech, was accompanied by Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Simon Lanong of Plateau, Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi.
Others with him are; Minister of Power Abubakar Aliyu, Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, Minister of Science and Technology Ogbonnaye Onu and Mohammed Abdullahi Minister of State Science and Technology.
The members of National and State House of Assembly from Nasarawa State also accompanied the President to the occasion.
Speaking to newsmen after the inauguration, Abubakar Aliyu, Minister of Power said the project is one of the legacy projects of the President in Nasarawa State.
The Minister said that the project which was started in 2017, had been completed and the people of the state are already benefiting from it.
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He listed some benefits of the project to includes rapid growth in the socio-economic activities by way of attracting foreign investors who will create jobs which will eventually change the standard of living of residents in the state.
He said small scale businesses such as hairdressing, barbershop, welding, tailoring are already benefiting from the quality electricity from the sub-station since it began operation few months ago.
He added that with the official inauguration by the President, Nasarawa State has now become a centre of electricity distribution.
On the issue of estimated billing, the Minister said measures are in place to tackle it by ensuring that every consumer is metered.
He explained that under the mass metering initiative of the Federal Government, over 1 million people were metered and over 4 million is available for distribution in the second phase of the programme.
Mr Aliyu added that the plan of FG is to make sure that every electricity consumer is metered so as to permanently tackle the problems associated with estimated billing system.
“When everyone has a meter, every customer is a liberty to waste his electricity or control it,” the Minister of Power added.
The Minister has therefore assured the public that the Akurba power sub-station and other projects by the FG would be fully utilised given the government’s huge investment in infrastructural development.