"State of Power in Nigeria is frustrating, many-a-times i feel like crying." - Minister of Power, Nebo

In an interview with journalists after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting, Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo explained that the power supply was indeed appalling.

Lamenting the problem, he said he had never in his life seen anything  “frustrating ‎as what we are experiencing today” and explained that any call for the incoming administration to reverse the exercise was an ill-advice.

“I have never in my life seen anything as frustrating ‎as what we are experiencing today.

“Every month, the Nigerian gas company spends a minimum of N120 million to fix gas pipeline.

”Every two weeks, western axis pipelines are vandalised and that is pure sabotage; the eastern axis pipelines are vandalised and that is oil theft.

“At the end of the day, the gas that is supposed to go to the turbines don’t get to the turbines to generate electricity.

“As I speak to you today, we have not installed capacity which is more, but available ‎if you give us gas right now we will produce 5,500MW.

“But when the pipelines are in the state of disarray as they are now, in fact the recent thing they are doing is testing the integrity of the entire system. And when you have broken something over and over again, you have to really look at the entire spectrum to make sure whether the rest of the pipeline has  integrity ‎to bear gas.

“Four major joints they are working on is going to cost them N1.5 billion. Is that the way to give light to the country?” he said.

Nebo said the situation underpinned the problem of planning and putting all the nation’s eggs in one basket which this administration has done everything to reverse.

He said so long as the nation continues to depend on gas which is vulnerable and susceptible to attacks on a regularly basis, the situation would persists.

The minister said there were days he felt like crying over vandalism.