By Abayomi Elias
In regulating supply of electricity across the states in Nigeria inspite of the electricity act of 2023 signed by President Bola Tinubu 2 years ago, energy expert has charged Federal Government to open up the space to allow transmission of mega watts of electricity be done by private organisations.
Newsconnect reports that Nick Agule, an Energy consultant on The Morning Show on Arise Television said transmission of power supply is in the private sector in the US and elsewhere, hence Nigeria won’t be vulnerable to national security risk has posited at some fora in the past.
“In Nigeria Telecommunication is in the private sector, but transmission of power supply isn’t. If juxtaposed with telecommunication sector which has a bigger security risk to this country than even transmission.
“As we speak today, the President is speaking to his Ministers and Security Chiefs , using a private sector provided phones, to me that is a bigger security exposure.
“This conversation that transmission is a security risk and will continue to keep it in Government control with no funding and the thing has constituted bottlenecks and it is sitting there for ages.
“Generation can’t do anything and distribution can’t do anything as the MD told us one time. Some of the equipments are 50 years old.
“When you come to the states, it is new thing for the state, they haven’t done this before. There are renewable energy everywhere. They can have mini grids or micro grids for power supply and forget about the National grid”.