Expectation has risen sharply in Bayelsa on the prospect of having uninterrupted power supply courtesy of the 60 Mega Watt gas turbine procured by the state government.
The turbine is now 85 percent ready according to the management of the Bayelsa Electricity Company Ltd (BEC Ltd),
Conducting journalists on tour of the ongoing works at the project site, Mr. Steve Bubagah Jnr, Director Operations of the company reiterated the firm’s resolve to deliver the project according to specifications and within timelines, as the project is 85 per cent completed.
According to him: “We are progressing seriously, at this stage we are about locating the turbine properly based on the dimension that is what we are doing now.
“We are installing the accessories after which you have a full blown turbine. The moment installation is fully completed the next stage is to pre commission.
“As we all know the governor must have been airing his views in public. We are about 90 percent done with reticulation of our 33 KVA network,” he explained.
He said that Yenagoa and its environs shall be a beneficiary of the gas turbine on/before the end of this year, as promised by Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa.
Also speaking, the Technical Adviser to the Governor on Print Media and Public Affairs, Mr Wisdom Ikuli, described governor Diri’s infrastructural project as the best in the history of Bayelsa.
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He noted that upon the completion of the project the state would be better for it, as businesses will relocate from other parts of the country to Bayelsa.
He noted that the governor’s giant strides are not limited to electricity alone, but in all facets of his ‘ASSURED Prosperity’ administration.
According to him: “The environmentalists came to do an environmental assessment, this place was bushy, it was swampy I mean it was not even cleared.
“Between January this year and now you can see a big difference. The power governor Diri promised is fast becoming a reality and he has promised that before the end of this year there will be power.
“Not just power, there will be 24 hours of uninterrupted electricity in Bayelsa and it is going to have a multiplier effect. Many people will come into Bayelsa State.
“Beyond that businesses will boom, everyone wants to relocate where there is power, so Bayelsa people will troop in from neighboring states to Bayelsa.
“Hospital business will boom, there will be improvement based on social life and all that, so as for me we must continue to thank governor Diri, who God is using to do miracles.
“Just a few days ago the governor shocked the people with two new aircrafts that the government has procured, as for me we must celebrate the man who God gave us,” he said.
