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Sunday, August 29 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.30

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News NEPA boss commends Udenwa MANAGING Director and Chief Executive of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) Engineer Joseph Makoju has commended the Imo State Governor Chief Achike Udenwa for his assistance in providing land and logistics support for the numerous power development projects in the state. Makoju gave the commendation when he called on the Governor at the Government House, Owerri. He said that the Governor’s personal intervention against vandalization of NEPA installations has gone a long way in contributing to the success of the Authority in the state. The NEPA Boss who gave a brief review of projects executed in the state and other on-going projects, explained that NEPA’s total infrastructures had more than doubled, while 11 power transformer projects were executed and commissioned between 2000 to date. Also, 225 distribution transformers of various sizes were installed within the same period, he said. According to him, special planned and on-going projects in the state include; the Anara and Eke Ahiara switching station; reconstruction/re-routing of Okigwe - Arondizuogu, Akokwa 33kv line and rehabilitation, stressing that the projects when fully realized, would constitute a 33kv ring network in the stage for enhanced switching flexibility. Makoju added that the authority would soon take delivery of a 60 MVA 132/33/kv Replacement Transformer for the failed 45MVA unit at Egbu Road Transmission sub-station. He said that NEPA would be privatized to enhance electricity supply, eliminate its monopoly unburden the 11 distribution units for much more greater autonomy and less supervision from NEPA headquarters. Governor Udenwa responding, stated that the state is in dire need of about 120 mega watts in place of 23 mega watts being supplied by NEPA and regretted that erratic and inadequate power supply had stifled the industrialization of the State with many cottage industries thrown out of business. The governor explained that the state government had so far distributed over 250 transformers on communities in the state as part of measures to boost rural transformations. Chief Udenwa also revealed that many companies had relocated outside the state due to unpredictable electricity supply, and called for the installation of new power stations in the state to remedy the situation.

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