HON AJIBOLA MURAINA HIGHLIGHTS THE POOR POWER SUPPLY TO CONSTITUENCY AS HOUSE OF REP INVITES MINISTER FOR POWER

Hon Dr Ajibola Muraina, again rose to the occasion, highlighting the poor power supply to his constituency at a meeting of the Power Committee of the 9th House of Representatives which held on Tuesday March 22, 2022.

The House of Representatives had invited Abubakar Aliyu, Minister for Power over the power situation in the country. The lawmakers expressed reservation over the erratic power supply experienced across the country in recent weeks saying the ministry takes a “fire brigade approach to dealing with the power outage and has shown no commitment to fixing the problem”.

In his statement, Hon Muraina, the lawmaker representing Ibarapa Central/Ibarapa North Federal Constituency said, “These problems are not just starting now.”

“For instance, we know every year there will be shortages of water and then there would be a problem at this time. We also know that during the period between January and March, there is usually this shutdown. As a nation, we have an abundance of gas but we are not making use of it.”

“What we do is fire brigade approach. It is when that same problem is repeating itself that we will stand up from somewhere and say we are repairing this or that”

“The summary of it is that we are not prepared to give our people power. This is very sad because even when there is electricity, some constituencies like mine don’t even have light. There is light only when they want to send billing to us – estimated bills.