Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, just denied making promises of better power supply.
In an interview with Channels
television, Fashola said that his plans did not consider vandalizing
pipelines because he was always focused on power generation.
Fashola said:
“Let us be careful when you claim that I made promises because I am ever
so conscious of the things that I say and I believe that if I recollect
correctly, it was when I was unveiling my ministries, probably sometime
late December last year, and it is unlike me to make promises on things
I don’t control,”
“If you check the words I used, I shared with you our plans if it worked
and where we will be. Those promises don’t factor in vandalisation. You
know when they teach you how to generate power in school, they don’t
teach you how to deal with vandalisation.
“When they teach you how to do banking, they don’t teach you about
round-tripping so those are the assumptions that things would remain
normal. There is no nation in the world that wants electricity that
vandalizes the assets that produce electricity; it doesn’t make any
sense.
“I can control what my team does, I can promise you what my team efforts
will produce but I can’t control behaviour that is counterproductive.
Those pipelines are national assets; they were built with our common
wealth, the people whose territories it passes are custodians of it.
“Let us assume that the people who are also custodians of Jebba, Kainji
and Shiroro dams go to break them down because they are angry, then who
gets power?”
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