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Goddy Agba, the minister of state for power, has stated that intentional vandalism is occasionally to blame for the nation’s erratic power supply, rather than a system failure.
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On Thursday, October 20, Agba made the assertion before the house of representatives committee on power’s investigative hearing in Abuja.
The Minister also mentioned that a trade union dispute in the electricity supply system was a contributing factor in some of the blackouts.
He stated:
“In September, there was a brief nationwide blackout, and several young people were seen turning off the system on social media.
There was no systemic collapse there. It was intentional vandalism. It was sabotage, in actuality.
How is it possible for young guys to turn out the lights and send the country into a blackout for personal reasons?
The managing director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Sule Abdul’aziz, also addressed during the hearing and noted a decrease in total system disturbances between 2017 and 2021.
He continued by saying that grid stability has significantly and consistently improved with each passing year.
The country’s unpredictable power supply, according to Joy Ogaji, executive secretary of the Association of Power Generation Companies, is due to outdated infrastructure and an excessively fluctuating load.
Some of the equipment utilized in the Nigerian power sector is almost 25 years old, according to Ogaji.
Added her;
Other issues include the instability and unavailability of most transmission cables.
Ogaji went on to say that the improvement in power supply was due to the usage of generation companies’ machines to manage the grid, which is against the grid code requirement.
In her conclusion, she stated that the grid was on high frequencies 97% of the time.
