The Nation Newspaper Reps urge Shettima to summon emergency meeting of NDPHC board
The House of Representatives on Thursday, May 9, asked Vice President Kashim Shettima to immediately summon an emergency meeting of the board of theThe House also summoned the Managing Director of NDPHC, Joseph Ugbo to appear before the House Committee on Power to explain the state of the Gbarain power plant and why it has been abandoned.
Oforji alleged that the NDPHC was planning to turn the power plant to a construction site, adding that rather to carry out repair works on the plant that was affected by fire incident 2020, the management of the power plant has abandoned it even when the plant can meet the electricity need of the entire Niger Delta.
He said: “Gbarain is one of the twenty three National Integrated power projects which has been deemed “Critical infrastructure in the generation, transmission , distribution and natural gas supply sub sectors of the electric power value chain” by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. “Three years down the line the NDPHC have not been able to live up to their responsibility by replacing the Power Control Module, which allegedly have been lying redundant in one of it’s uncompleted station.
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