Power Crisis: Senate Rejects Ban On Generator Importation
November 20, 2019
5:18 am
Senators shut down a motion seeking to temporary ban generator importation into the country.
The motion which was an additional prayer moved by Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East) was aimed at curtailing generator importation as a way of making the government sit up to address the nation’s power problems.
Fadahunsi was making his contribution to a motion moved by Chukwuka Utazi (PDP, Enugu North) titled: “Addressing Nigeria’s Power Problems.” Utazi had said Nigeria, with a population of 200 million and an annual growth rate of 2.6 percent per annum, was the seventh most populous nation on earth.
According to Utazi, the …
