The FCT Administration is to construct an Independent Power Plant to complement its current supply from the National Grid by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).  

The FCT Minister, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar, made this disclosure last week while briefing the FCT Executive Committee meeting on the state of power supply to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

According to him, the plant is expected to generate 1,300 megawatts of electricity that will be solely dedicated to the Federal Capital Territory,.

Dr. Umar revealed that the Independent Power Plant will be sited in Gwagwalada remarking that the FCT Administration is already in the process of handing over the site to a Korean firm to enable them commence work.

His words, “we are determined to break the jinx because we must make a difference in the Federal Capital Territory, if we must be taken seriously as city managers.”

“President Yar’Adua went out of his way, to personally invite the Koreans knowing fully well that it is only through strong power base that sound economic activities can be gingered,” he stressed.

Dr. Umar reiterated that the dream is realizable since the process is being driven by the private sector who can better manage such important and gigantic projects going by what has been happening in the advanced countries of the world.

He assured that the FCT Administration will not leave any stone unturned since as city managers, “we are at the receiving end of poor power supply.”