BEVERLY HILLS, AUGUST 2, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday assured that Nigeria is working hard to resolve the power problem facing the country as his administration is fully committed to realizing the objective.
The president spoke at a joint press conference with visiting president of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe at the presidential villa, Abuja on Tuesday adding that the problem is also affecting other neighbouring countries who are depending on Nigeria for their power supply.
“They say seeing is believing, you can see the efforts private investors are making. We are also building pipelines but it is not as formidable as what Dangote is doing, we are improving on it,” Buhari declared.
“We also have the LNG that is helping us to liquidify the gas and then turn it into gas with modern technology and modern technology is making it flexible.
“And if you will recall, I made mention to President of Benin, We have power problem and Benin has power problem because they depend on us and we are working very hard to stabilize the situation.
“The resources are available, the technology is available we are trying to stabilize the situation.
“If we improve power which means our productivity can be competitive and God’s willing we are going to achieve our objectives.
“We also discussed the unfortunate incidents in South Sudan, Burundi during the closed door meeting.
“It is an agonising situation, several citizens are living under primitive conditions, we hope at the AU meeting we will be able to stabilise the situation in South Sudan and Burundi with the efforts being made.”
Gnassingbe revealed he was in Nigeria to inspect the ongoing refinery project by Dangote group in Lagos adding that he was impressed by Dangote’s string of investment in Africa.
“I’m impressed by the investment of Dangote because we have been talking of Socio-economic integration and promoting trade among African countries,” he said.
“If you want to promote trade, you have investors that are very competitive and will contribute to reduce import from non-African countries.
“I was told the gas pipeline that will be built will be buried under the sea to make it. It means if you want to promote blue economy, our ocean needs to be very safe. We need security.”
Story by David Oputah
