Babatunde Fashola, the minister of Power, Works and Housing, , has inaugurated a committee to brainstorm on how to generate
electricity from eight small hydro plants in Nigeria.
The plants selected include Tiga, Challawa
dams in Kano State, Omi-Kampe in Kogi, Jibiya zone dams in Katsina State, Bakalori in Zamfara, Doma in Nasarawa and Ikere Gorge in Oyo State.
The committee which has 45 days to submit its
report is to look into procurement procedures for civil and mechanical
engineering works and what needs to be done to quickly complete the projects.
Membership of the inter-agency committee is drawn
from the ministries of Mineral Resources, Petroleum, Water Resources,
Environment, Agriculture, Bureau of Public Enterprises, (BPE), and the
Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC)
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