Power supply: All homes in Lagos will be lit in six months if… —Fashola

March 09, 2015

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said the solution to the problem of power sector could be achieved in six months if the Distribution Companies, DISCOs, were ready to yield some percentages of their concessions to the state government.

Fashola made this statement at the commissioning of the 1.2 kilometer Glover Road and 8.5 megawatts, Peninsula Integrated Power Project, PIPP, Lekki, Eti-Osa Local Government Area.

The governor, while commissioning the fifth IPP, said: “Let the EKO DISCOs sign a contract with me, giving part of their concessioning to the state government. In about six to eight months, there will be power in all homes in Lagos State.

“So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated.

‘’So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible.”

He opined that the project showed that the money to improve the Nigerian economy is here, “since we don’t need the World Bank to come and do this for us.”

Fashola noted that he felt fulfilled with the conduct of youths that delivered the project, despite the difficulties in getting to the finishing point.

Explaining the importance of the project, the governor said the project, courtesy of the state government, in partnership with PIPP and Heritage Bank, would help to provide power supply to power the Lagos State public water corporations in Lekki Phase 1, Oniru, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, as well as over 25km of public lighting in the Lekki axis.

Earlier, Commissioner, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Engr. Taofeek Tijani, said the new addition was about continuity in public infrastructure programme of the state government.

General Manager, Lagos State Electricity Board, Damilola Ogunbiyi, said the state had shown that reliable and sustainable power projects are possible through the youths.

Ogunbiyi said though it had been a successful story, the state was just scratching the surface in its “aggressive development plan,” in the area of power.

Promoter of the project, Faruk Agoro, noted that the new IPP was an innovative idea of world-class natural gas-fired power generating facility, sold to the government by youths and it was bought into, to support government institutions, especially in the area of water supply and security.

Stage One is 8.5 megawatts, with the capacity for 30 megawatts. Lagos IPPs now has a total of 47 megawatts of electricity in total, powering public institutions around the state. The generated megawatts is however a tiny drop in the over 9,000 megawatts power deficit in the state.

Billyonaire:
That's like a giant inverter. Powering pumping machines for water corporations and intermittently for street lights at night does not qualify that NIPP as a real power plant. In my opinion its just a giant generator and inverter system.

Noise, Noise, Noise. That's all that Fashola is good at.

Billyonaire:
That's like a giant inverter. Powering pumping machines for water corporations and intermittently for street lights at night does not qualify that NIPP as a real power plant. In my opinion its just a giant generator and inverter system.

Noise, Noise, Noise. That's all that Fashola is good at.

mrmetoo1:


Even you know this is not true. Fashola is a performer with evidence all over. If there's someone in Nigeria that banks his talk with action it's Fashola.

Now what he said about providing electricity to all Lagos homes even though it sounds too good to be true, I'll be willing to take a chance with Fashola over anyone right now

Billyonaire:


Fashola's Lagos, can not afford just one Airport on their name. All PDP States can boast of State-built Airports. What is Fashola doing with my Tax and Federal Allocation ?

Fashola has NOT built anything tangible, even the railway he wanted to build is in comatose. He just liaises with Tinubu to bury all our state money on a fraud called Eko Atlantic City.

Will these fraudulent Fashola and Tinubu live forever ? The answer is NO. The universal denominator will square them to 6ft in their due time.]

There is God oh.

mekaboy:
Hand over to u or ur boss tinubu?

Billyonaire:


Fashola's Lagos, can not afford just one Airport on their name. All PDP States can boast of State-built Airports. What is Fashola doing with my Tax and Federal Allocation ?

Fashola has NOT built anything tangible, even the railway he wanted to build is in comatose. He just liaises with Tinubu to bury all our state money on a fraud called Eko Atlantic City.

Will these fraudulent Fashola and Tinubu live forever ? The answer is NO. The universal denominator will square them to 6ft in their due time.]

There is God oh.

Billyonaire:
That's like a giant inverter. Powering pumping machines for water corporations and intermittently for street lights at night does not qualify that NIPP as a real power plant. In my opinion its just a giant generator and inverter system.

Noise, Noise, Noise. That's all that Fashola is good at.

ManMountain:

oloshi omo okoro, your eyes will NEVER behold anything good in Lagos.
you will return to your village in the erosion ravaged zone empty handed as Lagos is never going to be good for you.
Eleribu

Billyonaire:
Go and brush your mouth, invite Tinubu too. Check that place that the broom is, there is Close-Up tooth paste there.

mrmetoo1:


I'm sorry do you live in Lagos?? The railway is comatose?? Work is going on there, work is constant even on Sundays. The columns are going up everyday from national stadium to the marina. I've said it before and I'll say again there's no day you'll pass that route and not see progress. This is not just talking this is a fact. I don't understand what you mean by all PDP states have an airport, were all the airports in those states built during GEJ's administration?? You do realize Lagos state has an international and domestic airport already right?? This airport was just supposed to complement the already existing ones. This airport Fashola is proposing is a world class airport and not airports that people have to pull up their trousers to go from plane to terminal. Then not one of those that are using sheds as terminals all in the name of having an airport.

I'll find out about what's really delaying the airport, I'm sure it's funds and I'll get back. The absence of a Fashola built airport however doesn't take away from Lagos state being the best governed state in Nigeria right now.

As for all this Tinubu nonsense, I don't care. If they have a case against him, let them arrest him and throw away the keys that's their business.

Billyonaire:
That's like a giant inverter. Powering pumping machines for water corporations and intermittently for street lights at night does not qualify that NIPP as a real power plant. In my opinion its just a giant generator and inverter system.

Noise, Noise, Noise. That's all that Fashola is good at.

Billyonaire:
That's like a giant inverter. Powering pumping machines for water corporations and intermittently for street lights at night does not qualify that NIPP as a real power plant. In my opinion its just a giant generator and inverter system.

Noise, Noise, Noise. That's all that Fashola is good at.

Rad1cal:






Lagos the best governed state ? What yardstick did you use to arrive at that emphatic conclusion.




Don't back out please explain.

ManMountain:

It shall never be well with your body and soul in this city of Lagos.
Eleribu, when your brothers were kidnapping your mothers, fathers and grand-parents, all of you rushed down to the villages to relocate those people to the same Lagos you are bad-mouthing.
Ofo l'omashe.

Billyonaire:
Hahahahahaaha Ofcourse, I have bought your grandfathers' graves and the backyards. I am building a replica of Niger Delta in this town, while you, the so-called owners of Lagos are living in dilapidated mud houses. Hahahahahaaha

1toRtoiSe1:
aren't you one of those internet warriors whom we saw ugly pix of them on NL last months? It's funny how you claim you own mansions but still look like paupers. Look at your region below. Could this be the reason why you can't stay there?

1toRtoiSe1:
Why are you bloody ibos irritants?

Mention a state well governed as lagos.

Meanwhile, look at your own region.


Meanwhile, here's a thread that shows fashola performed far better than the FG under GEJ. Feed your alaigbo eyes

www.nairaland.com/2180887/fasholas-8-years-gej-fg

Rad1cal:






Lagos the best governed state ? What yardstick did you use to arrive at that emphatic conclusion.




Don't back out please explain.