GOV AMAECHI: During your inauguration in 2011 you promised to provide power supply starting from Onne and gas free zone. They refused to allow us build distribution network there. We were taking power to them, but NPA refused. If you observed as you were coming in, you would have noticed there is no street light. That is because I got very angry with the Ministry of Power. You asked us to give you certain amount of money and we’ve given you and we are not seeing power supply and they said it is from the transmission. They now want N13billion for transmission. We have released N5billion out of the 13billion. And we have given not to them but to due process. And we said due process can only release the money to them according to the services they are able to provide. And now they have promised that they will start with Trans-Amadi with N400million out of the N5billion we released. If we see 24 hours power supply on Trans-Amadi after paying you 400million, they will give us for the next zone we want. We have divided Port Harcourt into different zones and we said they must pursue the project with speed. Even the reason why you have not seen the street lights on is because the due process is questioning the expenditures on street lights. And I am happy a debate is going on. Yes there is an embarrassment as people are asking, why can’t they put on the street lights? The due process is trying to determine the costs of diesel being used per month. I am happy about what is going now. It is not because there was corruption. It is because in the past, it was being done by the public servants, but now we are saying get a contractor whose responsibility it is to provide the light, our own is to buy it. We are asking them to supply the street light and we will pay for it. This is unlike before where we install the infrastructure and the public servants were given money to buy diesel and they cannot account of all the services they were providing and now we are becoming a bit more thorough. Once they finish with the process, then we pay for the street lights and you will see the service coming back on. I am prepared to endure the complaints and embarrassment of not having the street lights on, but to have a process you can account for.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 12:07:18 +0000
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