Minister Of Power Wants Death Penalty For Vandals Damaging Power Equipment.

The minister said the issue of power infrastructure vandalisation is one of the pains the sector is going through.

The minister said this in Abuja on Monday while reacting to the frequent vandalism of power infrastructure. He said the issue of power infrastructure vandalisation and theft was one of the pains the sector is going through.

He said, "The Ministry of Power and agencies under it is pushing for capital punishment for those involved in vandalisation and power thefts of all forms.

"Capital punishment is not too much because they are gradually killing the nation. They are killing the economy. They are killing the people.

"Vandals are getting too many comfort all over transmission and distribution power assets. This is not only frustrating our efforts to achieve uninterrupted power supply,, It is driving the nation backward," he said.

Adelabu said Nigerians must realise these assets belong to them, so they must jealously protect them, adding that it was the taxpayers' money that was used to acquire them.

He said the Ministry of Power was collaborating with office of the National Security Adviser and security agencies to protect them as it costs a lot of money to replace them when damaged.

The minister said the ministry was also collaborating with states to have their protection framework to protect the infrastructure. According to him, the Federal Government is also trying to provide at least two million meters on a yearly basis.

"So that in four to five years, the huge metre gap will disappear or significantly reduce."

"We already have a seed fund of ₦75 billion to start working. And we are also going to have some debt injection from the Nigerian Sovereign Investments Authority to complement the fund.

"There is even a possibility of increasing the fund to a ₦100 billion. We have a planned intervention to reduce the metre gap. But the Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) must also sit up.

"We need to interrogate their metering plans and give them the minimum target they must achieve in a year," he said.

The minister said that as the metre gap was being reduced, there were new connections as new communities were connected to the grid so we need to be aggressive on this.

They need to start with death penalty on Mahmoud and tinubu first for compromising the electronic voting guaranteed and signed into law in the electoral act of 2023. Where is the 400bn given to Mahmoud for electronic voting? Gone with the wind

A lot of crimes deserve the death penalty in Nigeria, including public infrastructure vandalism and public fund theft.

BTW, I have repeatedly maintained that Nigérians, irrespective of tribe and religion, are evil.

If not, how can a country that bribery and corruption have slowed down for several decades think twice before passing a law to enforce death penalty on corrupt public office holders?

Likewise death penalty for any minister that loot or pockets public fund budgeted for the installations of electrical equipment for the good of the country and the Nigerian people. The actions and in-actions of public office holders in looting public fund has more grevious consequences than the activities of vandals.

I left..!

But corrupt politicians get a slap on their wrist or none in most cases,right?

malali:
100% Perfect.

Add Terrorism.
Add Banditry.
Add International Drug smuggling( Any international bound flight)
Add looting of more than 10 million Naira by any government official.
Add Kidnapping.
Add Oil Bunkering.

Lets sanitize the whole country.

There are some tumors you don't treat. You cut them away if they are malignant and will spread and destroy the whole organism.


4 years of dedicated enforcement of this, and the country will be brand new. The cancerous cells gone and no longer able trouble nor spread and infect healthier cells.

otipoju:


There are some tumors you don't treat. You cut them away if they are malignant and will spread and destroy the whole organism.


4 years of dedicated enforcement of this, and the country will be brand new. The cancers gone and no longer able to spread and infect healthier cells.

None of these is stage IV yet. I agree we need some "ectomys" to sanitize the system.
A lot of people exploiting the system, even amongst the so called elected officials.