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The Senate Committee on Energy has urged the National Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission, N-HYPPADEC, to monitor its projects and beneficiaries of its empowerment programmes for sustenance.
The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Senator Lola Ashiru gave the charge when he paid an oversight visit to the Kwara State office of the Agency in Ilorin.
Senator Ashiru applauded N-HYPPADEC for the various intervention projects across the State and urged them to do more based on the resources available to it.
Speaking on electricity supply in the country, he stated that a substantial amount was budgeted for the energy sector in the recently approved 2025 budget and that this would soon reflect on electricity supply across the country.
Senator Ashiru also described the various reports of grid collapse as overblown, pointing out that most often, the incidence were caused by minor technical issues which were often times addressed in no time.
He urged Nigerians to be patient and gave assurance that soon the results of the various developmental programmes of the Federal Government would yield pleasurable results.
In an interview with newsmen, the Kwara State Coordinator of N-HYPADEC, hajia Hajarah Ndaman, explained that since the establishment of the agency in 2022 in the State, it had carried out numerous intervention projects and had also empowered over six hundred youths in various skills and tools.
Hajia Ndaman stated that the agency had provided at least one borehole in each of the sixteen local government areas of Kwara State and had also begun the construction of a resettlement camp for victims of disaster.
She said that the agency’s areas of interventions include agriculture, education, water and security.
Hajia Ndaman listed some of the projects carried out by the agency to include, provision of fertilizers at subsidized rate to farmers in benefiting communities, power tillers to ease farm work, construction of blocks of three classrooms, distribution of motorcycles for security support, and provision of lifejackets.
The N-HYPPADEC Kwara State Coordinator however appealed to the State Government to improved road network for easy access to benefiting communities and monitoring, as well as more funding from the federal government to fulfil its mandate.
By Rasheedat Iliyas
