Goddy Jedy-Agba, the Minister of State for Power revealed the national grid has not collapsed this year.
He claimed that rather than collapsing, there had just been disruptions.
This was said by Mr. Jedy-Agba on Thursday when he testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Power regarding the ongoing investigation into the frequent national grid failures.
According to reports, the system meltdown caused four total blackouts throughout the nation this year.
The Minister explained that disruption could cause a blackout.
“So, please let us understand that we have not had any collapses this year, we have had disruptions and disruptions could lead to blackouts, a blackout is not a collapse.
“These ones we have had this year, in fact, four of them, but they have not collapsed, it is disruption. And disruptions have been as a result of the human factors, they could be increment factors, they could be political factors, it could be other factors,” he said.
Mr. Jedy-Agba blamed the unavailability of gas for some of the disruptions experienced so far this year.
“Gas supply has been a problem but we are tackling that already because we are discussing with NNPC and Nigerian Gas Corporation. We are coming to an agreement and gas is flowing systematically now to the generating companies and we are seeing a steady increment in the generation,” the minister said
