The Federal Government yesterday read the riot act to contractors handling power projects in the country. It issued them a three months ultimatum to either perform or get sacked.
The ultimatum came on a day the President of Eurobud Invest Corporation, Ukraine, Mr. Tatarenko Pavlo, pledged to boost Nigeria’s power sector.
Vice President Namadi Sambo, who presided over the 21st Board Meeting of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), said contractors that failed to reach achieve 50per cent project execution by the end of June, 2012, will have their contracts terminated..
The vice president also directed the management of NDPHC to make a list of delinquent contractors and consultants. He said anyone that could not complete its project by the end of the year will be sanctioned.
Briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, said any transmission and distribution contractor that has not performed up to the 50 per cent by June, will have its contract transferred to a performing contractor.
He also said all the NIPP contracts will also come up for review at the end of June.
“At this meeting the chairman, which is the Vice President directed that all the contractors must have performed at least 50 per cent of their jobs by the end of June this year. Any transmission and distribution contractor that has not done so by June this year will have its contract given to a performing contractor.
“So there will be a review at the end of June of all the transmission and distribution contracts and the ones that are not performing will obviously be dropped and given performing contractors. Hopefully, there will be improvement in the next few months and definitely by the end of the year we would have improvement,” he said.
He also said that the meeting reviewed the activities of the National Independent Power Plants that are being constructed across the country, noting that lots of progress have been made, including the coming up of two plants, Olorunshogo and Sapele.Both have some of the units (turbines) completed.
The Olorunshogo completed units with 450mw and Sapele two units completed with 250mw generation capacity, he said.
The success he said has been hampered with gas supply.
He however, assured that as part of the efforts to address the problem of gas supply to power projects, the Presidential committee on gas is expected to come up with gas supply strategy by next week.
Besides, he said the meeting urged the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mr. Austin Onivon and the Managing Director, National Gas Company of Nigeria to work with Chevron and all other oil companies to ensure availability of gas, in order to meet government’s planned programme for power delivery to the nation
Before giving approval to some of the requests by the management of NDPHC, Vice President Sambo warned that the Board would no longer approve any new projects and they must concentrate on the urgent delivery of existing contracts.
In a related development, Pavlo, who spoke during a courtesy visit to the Minister of State of Power by the Ukraine Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Valery Vasyliev, who led a Trade delegation, said Ukraine is interested in the energy sector in generation, transmission and designing the thermal stations. He assured that if given a chance, they would uplift the sector to enviable heights.
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