By Abubakar Yunusa
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria,(HURIWA) on Sunday, said it is disturbing that under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, the National electricity power grid is collapsing intermittently even after humongous investments were allegedly made.
In a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, lamented that despite trillions of dollars thought to have been borrowed by the Buhari regime to improve the megawatts produced by about 19 power generating plants in the country, the national grid keeps wobbling, with perpetual outages that throw businesses, homes and the entire country into subterranean darkness.
The group, therefore, demanded a comprehensive forensic financial audit of the power sector since Buhari came on board and call for all the top figures that have served under this government since 2015 for them to render accounts.
HURIWA’s call followed the collapsed of the national electricity grid on Friday evening, making it the third time the grid had collapsed within the space of one month, and about the fifth in 2022.
According to him, many more debts have been incurred by the Buhari government under the pretext of attempting to stabilise the power sector but yet Nigeria barely generates and distributes 5,000 megawatts daily, while businesses and homes grapple with increasing electricity tariffs, fuel scarcity and its attendant hike in prices.
