Politics Governor Fashola Commissions Alausa power plant

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Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has commissioned the 10.4MW Alausa Independent Power Project, IPP, built at a cost of N3.2 billion. The Alausa IPP is a joint venture between Oando Gas and Power and the Lagos State government.

During the commissioning of the power plant governor Fashola said the solution to unemployment, underdevelopment and job creation lies in made in Nigeria products, saying that the Alausa IPP was made in Nigeria and delivered by Nigerians.

The project will boost electricity supply at the Lagos State Secretariat in Ikeja. Lagos State is officially the first state in country to run its secretariat through IPP.

The governor further said that over 130 generators being used at the State Government Secretariat would now be a thing of the past, saying that the capacity of these generators ranged from 30KVA to 50 KVA.

“These generators are not what they call ‘I better pass my neighbor’. Some of the smallest one there are 30 KVA generators. The aggregate of that power is 30 Megawatt of efficient power, lost power, lost time, lost accountability, transport cost, diesel supply and all of that from today are now history”.

Here we are but this is not our destination, two more IPP will come and we will continue to focus on public power supply, street lighting, public building schools hospital and so and so forth and some of the religious institutions as you will see in the course of time,” he said.

The two IPPs, he said, would be built in Lekki and the Ikeja GRA which would be completed next year, adding that people living on the Island, Shomolu and others where IPP had been situated were enjoying the benefits of the projects.

In his address, the Managing Director of Oando Gas, Mr Bolaji Osunsanya said the Alausa Power Plant would be run primarily on gas and will reduce pollution that emanates from diesel generation that are currently in use across the secretariat.(NAN)
 
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