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| Minister for Power, works and housing, Babatunde Fashola |
Minister
of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has warned Nigerians to be
careful of what they say about his promise of better power supply during his
emergence as Minister.
Fashola denied making promises of better power
supply, stating that it’s unlike him to make promises on things he has no
control over.
Speaking with Channels
television, the Minister 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.
“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.”
He further noted that
his plans did not consider vandalization of pipelines because he was always
focused on power generation.
“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?” Fashola quizzed.
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