We’ll fight vandals until power supply stabilises —FG

The Federal Government on Tuesday vowed to fight gas pipeline vandals who had made the supply of gas to power generation companies very difficult. It described the vandals as terrorists, adding that their activities had impacted negatively on the quest by the government to realise its target of uninterrupted power supply to Nigerians in the shortest possible time. The Minister of State for Power, Mr. Mohammed Wakil, said the two problems of lack of gas and pipelines vandalism were demeaning the government’s efforts of ensuring stable electricity. Wakil said this while playing host to a delegation from the National Orientation Agency at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Power. The minister, in a statement issued by the ministry’s Deputy Director, Press, Mr. Timothy Oyedeji, said, “We are going to fight until we are victorious. We must deliver so that the dream of Mr. President’s transformation agenda for power is achieved. “In order to underscore the seriousness of vandalism, I had in time past referred to it as ‘infrastructural terrorism.’ We have already done a pilot model in a community in Kogi State, where we launched Operation Save Power Infrastructure;that effort was very successful.” Wakil urged the Director-General, NOA, Mr. Mike Omeri, to use his expertise and leadership to address the issue of vandalism of power infrastructure in Nigeria. “The NOA should assist in sensitising citizens to own these infrastructure built by government in their communities as it is their responsibility to do so,” he said. He told the delegation that the ministry had been working tirelessly with the Civil Defence Corps and noted that the partnership with the NOA would lead to a tripartite arrangement. Earlier in his address, Omeri had informed the minister that his visit was to consummate partnership that would help in the fight against vandalism of power infrastructure.

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