Prof Barth Nnaji, a former Minister of Power, has stated that Nigeria requires more than 100,000 megawatts of power to alleviate the country’s continuous power crisis.
Nnaji made the remarks while speaking to reporters in Enugu on Friday on the state of the country’s power sector.
He ascribed the sector’s problems to the supply value chain, noting that the country had difficulty in electricity generation, transmission, and distribution.
All of this, he argued, has made it difficult to provide appropriate electricity to customers.
“Nigeria is a country of more than 200 million people and needs more than 100,000 megawatts of power and infrastructure,” he said.
Nnaji said the power project of Geometric Power Ltd., his company in Aba, Abia State, had the capacity to provide power in Aba within six months.
“We are installing meters to bridge the disagreement gap between customers and suppliers of electricity.
“I support unbundling of power sector where states will be allowed to own and manage their own power supply,” he said.
According to him, the company had invested heavily in power distribution in Aba to strengthen distribution.
He added that distribution companies had to do the same thing to improve power supply.