The Management of Bayelsa Electricity Company Ltd (BEC Ltd), says it is intensifying efforts to complete installation of the newly acquired 60 Mega Watts (MW) gas powered plant in the state.
The Director Operations of the company, Mr. Steve Bubagah Jnr., gave the assurance while conducting newsmen on a facility tour of the plant sited at Elebele, Ogbakor Local Government Area on the state.
Mr. Bubagah said that the project when completed would ensure uninterrupted power supply in Yenagoa and its environs.
The director operations, reiterated the firm’s resolve to deliver the project according to specifications and within timelines, as the project the project has reached 85 per cent completion.
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 we will 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 85 per cent done with reticulation of our 33 KVA network,” he further explained.
He said that Yenagoa and its environs shall benefit from the gas turbine on or 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 Diri’s infrastructural projects as the best in the history of Bayelsa.
He noted that upon the completion of the project the state would be better for it, as businesses owners 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, of this place this January and it was bushy and swampy , but today the story is clear.
“Between January this year and now you can see a big difference. The power governor 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 effects. Multitudes of people will come into Bayelsa State.
“Beyond that businesses will boom, everyone will want to relocate where there is power, so Bayelsa people will troop in from neighboring states back to the state.
“Hospitality businesses will boom, there will be improvement based on social life and all that, so as for me we must continue to thank Gov. Diri, whom God is using to do miracles.
“Just a few days ago the governor shocked the people with two new aircrafts that the government procured, as for me we must celebrate the man who God gave us,” he said.
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