Despite being the sectors saddled with the responsibility of ensuring adequate power supply for the country, the Federal Ministries of Power and Petroleum Resources and their various agencies will spend a total of N213.64m to fuel and maintain generators as well as other transport equipment this year.

According to the 2015 budget proposal now before the National Assembly, both ministries will spend N141.65m on the maintenance of plants/generators and fuel during the period.

A breakdown of the 2015 Appropriation Bill for the Ministry of Petroleum Resources shows that five of its agencies will spend N101.11m on plants/generators fuel in 2015; if the budget is approved.

The Petroleum ministry, according to the 2015 budget proposal, has six agencies and only one, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, has no allocation for fueling plant/generator.
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