Fashola wants FG to pay serious attention to power generation

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Wednesday tasked the Federal Government to pay critical attention to power generation if poverty within the economy is to be tackled.

Fashola spoke at the 2014 edition of the Lagos Governor’s Education Awards in Ikeja, Lagos, lamenting that epileptic power supply in Nigeria was aggravating poverty level among the people. He said the Federal Government was not truthful in its hyped efforts to tackle the problems of electricity in the country.

“These children have the capacity to solve the problem of power in this country if they get the right funds even if the central government is busy lying about electricity. If they continue with those lies, the next generation of people in Lagos will solve it.

“It is important to understand that electricity is what is keeping Nigeria in poverty. We have done a basic power audit and we have discovered that an average two bedroom flat in Lagos will consume about over one thousand kilowatts of electricity.

“By generating this power through generating set, he spends N2, 097 daily. If there was public power, the person will be paying about N600 daily.”