{"id":8275,"date":"2013-08-13T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/pipeline-vandalisation-fg-alleges-sabotage\/"},"modified":"2013-08-13T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:39:45","slug":"pipeline-vandalisation-fg-alleges-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/pipeline-vandalisation-fg-alleges-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipeline vandalisation: FG alleges sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Federal Government said yesterday that its efforts at providing stable electric power was being frustrated by by what it described as politically motivated sabotage arising from the vandalisation of gas pipelines and transformers.
Speaking at the end of a meeting of the joint Committee of the National Council of Privatisation (NCP) and the Board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), government regretted that activities of the vandals have resulted in shortage of gas supplies to the power plants as well as a drop in electric power generation currently being experienced in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n

Benue state governor, Gabriel Suswam and the Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the joint meeting presided over by Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo.
According to reports, vandals in one of the distribution companies (DISCOs) removed copper which does not cost up to N10,000 from one of the transformers, resulting in destruction that would gulp N27 million to fix and throwing over one million people into blackout.\u00a0Nebo attributed the high rate of vandalisation of gas pipelines and transformers to \u201ca craze inspired by political moves aimed at discrediting the administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe busting of gas pipelines and vandalisation of the pipelines that bring gas is sheer madness or may be essentially politically motivated just to cause damage to the entire country and to Nigerians.
\u201cIt is no news now that a couple of months ago the western axis of the gas pipeline leading to the power plants in the west were cannibalized, resulting in very severe damages that caused a sharp drop in power supply.
\u201cThat is since being addressed and the damages are being repaired.
\u201cUnfortunately, a couple of weeks ago, the Akoloma plant in the Eastern axis was also vandalized and the damages are quiet extensive,\u201d he said.
\u201cBut a crack team of experts went to work and restored it bringing out gas supply and ensured that the shut down axis was open.
\u201cThese are the reasons in addition to the fact that water level in Kainji, Shiroro and Jebba are quiet low right now and the water level needs to be properly managed so that the plants will operate optimally.
\u201cThat we are hoping with the help if nature will come on board very shortly so that the 460 megawatts already lost because of water level will be recovered.
\u201cWithin the next six weeks, the western axis should be fixed and we are hoping that we would recover a good portion of the 1600MW power that has already dropped.
\u201cWe are appeal for calm on the part of our people to understand that the massive load shedding that we are encountering now needs the support of everybody to help to educate these vandals to stop sabotaging the efforts of the Federal Government to ensure that power supply come to our people.\u201d
An additional measure being taken by the apex government to stem the tide of the power crisis is the Commercialization of the NDPHC 10 power companies.<\/p>\n

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