Amaechi: Rivers’ll Be Empowered By 24-Hour Power Supply

Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi

As a follow-up to his administration’s pledge to provide uninterrupted power supply in Port Harcourt and subsequently the entire state beginning this December, Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has assured that the people of the state would be economically empowered with the provision of stable power supply.

Amaechi gave the assurance recently during the second Dissecting The Amaechi Administration Media Briefing Series, at Government House, Port Harcourt.  He was represented by the Commissioner for Power, Augustine Nwokocha.

Nwokocha said, “As a Ministry and as a state, we have a firm belief in the power of uninterrupted stable power supply to empower our people and we know that once we deliver electricity to our people the issue of economic empowerment will be addressed to a very large extent. We are determine to provide constant power to our people so they can live a better life."

According to Nwokocha, the power system being built in the state has been so designed to deliver electricity directly to the homes and businesses of the people.

“We have designed our systems in such a way that if there is problem in one generation station, you can feed the entire system from the existing ones.  The second advantage the Rivers State system has is that our generation does not have one source of fuel (gas) supply. Shell supplies us at Afam, Agip supplies us at Omoku, Eleme is a different supplier, Trans Amadi is Shell. So if Agip has problem, it is not likely that that same day the Shell supply will have problem.