As the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing strives to improve the country’s power supply, it is also making budgetary proposals for the purchase, maintenance and fuelling of generators at its headquarters and various agencies.

An analysis of the 2019 budget proposal of the FMPWH that was recently submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly showed that the ministry and its agencies had proposed to spend N167.96m this year on the purchase, maintenance and fuelling of generators/plants.

Nigeria currently generates and distributes an average of 4,000 megawatts of electricity and the sector is still suffering from a serious liquidity crisis despite being privatised since November 1, 2013.

The 2019 budget proposal revealed that at the headquarters of the power ministry, a total sum of N26.6m was budgeted for maintenance of plants/generators, while plant/generator fuel cost was put at N16.3m.


The FMPWH headquarters also made a budget proposal of N50m for the purchase of generators.


The National Rural Electrification Agency proposed to spend N488, 000 on the maintenance of plants and generators, while N1.55m was budgeted as fuel cost for its plants and generators.

In its 2019 budget proposal, the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency’s headquarters proposed to spend N2m on maintenance of plants and generators. It plans to spend N4m to fuel the plants and generators in 2019.

The National Power Training Institute made a proposal of N1.5m for the maintenance of plants and generators and intends to spend another N1.5m for the fuelling of the equipment.

The Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Limited proposed N2.3m and N3.31m for the maintenance and fuel cost of plants/generators respectively, while the Office of the Surveyor-General of the Federation, under the works arm of the FMPWH, proposed N3.1m and N5.84m for the maintenance and fuelling of its plants/generators in the 2019 fiscal year.

The Federal School of Survey, Uyo, only budgeted for the maintenance of generators/plants at a cost of N1m, while the Federal Road Maintenance Agency’s proposal for maintenance of plants/generators and fuel cost were put at N1.62m and N10.59m respectively.

Source:https://punchng.com/power-ministry-budgets-n168m-for-generators-fuel/

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This is a shame.

A matter that should better be kept secret like our reproductive organs

Just like saying an old man developing milk teeth

The confusion in this country can't be defined by the dictionary. Is it that the people in the ministry haven't heard of other non fossil fuels that they will keep talking about generators and petrol

In a bid to steal we make collective ridiculous budgets and publishing same without fear.

What do you expect? It's not their father's money; they can afford to budget any amount of money to buy fuel. But if they can budget such amount of money to buy fuel, how much would they budget to fix the power sector?

What is this!
This is 2019 ooooo

Rocket science APC change magician

Is there a justification for this?

A tragedy!

OK

MINISTER OF DARKNESS ......lol

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Minister of darkness

What' a shame...they can't even think of investing that money on solar energy or something profitable... If ministry of power uses generator then how do you think Nigeria will ever have light... I've been I'm Niger state for 2 weeks the so called power state has 6hours of light a day 3 hours in the morning and 3hours at night and they didn't even do a Christmas or new year free Enjoyement of light and people still think Nigeria will ever be better

Only in Nigeria


The ministry should be renamed Generator Power, Works and Housing Fashola, you try well well

And how much will be embezzled into the minister's personal account? We should be talking about how to improve the power sector that will benefit the citizens of Nigeria not some agencies bullsh!t.....

Hmm!

Which way my people? When China is about to have their China made sun.

Its like police making budget for security at the police stations

I pity apc followers

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Only in Nigeria

na so.. next level things

And you expect things to work. What will they gain if things (the system) are working?

Power ministry headed by the minister of Darkness and rocket science

Propaganda can only go as far as you blow it but won't change the reality on ground.

They say power has improved and yet look at the huge money they are using to buy fuel

This is no joke

Una wicked o!

Make den no see light use work?

Craze people country

Budgeting huge money to power generators when we are capable of having constant power supply though out the country. We are just jokers! Smh!

We need help, walahi.......

These are practical reasons why things will never get better.
Until we begin to see these things as personal problems, we'll be stagnated.

There was this trending picture of 'Obi' standing in a waterlogged environment during an inspection while his incumbent counterpart, Osinbajo was in a boat, wearing life jackets during a 'comparable' inspection.

That comparison speaks loads. Due to the presence of alternatives, the willingness to solve these problems are not at full force.

believe me not funny
Seriously we need to change this administration the don't have shame at all

Before we bash anyone...consider this fact.

We generate less than 7000MW of power a day. For 200m people.

Before we can stop budgeting N170m for fuel for generator....we have to generate at least 40000MW plus fix the transmision

And all this needs money.

Now, the funny thing is that most of the people bashing APC or PDP for power are contributing to the problem by not paying their power bills.

And that includes a lot of government agencies as well.

Then the money we pay for power....Ghana has light 24/7 and they pay far more than we do in power bills.

So, Nigerians have to pay their bills, and we also have to pay a bill that is commensurate with the amount of money needed to fix power...because at the end of the day, we need N 5 trillion (according to a report in thisday some 20 years ago) to fix power.

We have to be realistic. Even if we vote out APC tomorrow...the problem will still be looking at us.

Can’t that amount of MONEY erect SOLAR SYSTEMS for the entire FEDERAL SECRETARIAT in ABUJA .??