Bayelsa Electricity Company Reassures Timely Installation Of New 60MW Power Plant
The Management of the Bayelsa Electricity Company Ltd(BEC Ltd), has said it is intensifying efforts in the installation of the newly acquired 60MW Gas fired powered plant to ensure unimpeded and reliable electricity supply in the State.
This was made known by Engr. Olice Kemenanabo, Managing-Director of the firm gave the assurance on Thursday while conducting newsmen on tour of the ongoing works at the project site of the twin Turbines in Elebele, Ogbia Local Government Area of the state.
Represented by the Director of Operations of the Company, Engr. Steve Bubagha Jnr, Kemenanabo reiterated the firm’s resolve to deliver the project according to specifications and within timelines.
He noted that the State Governor, Distinguished Senator Douye Diri can be likened to light as he meant every promised he has made on powering the state, especially Yenagoa and its environs on or before the end of the year.
“You can see for yourselves as tours of the Gas Turbines site today. Already works on this site have reached advance stages. These buildings you see people working on here are part of the Gas fired Turbine Power Project.
“As we speak, we have started installing new polls and towers that will enable us distribute power from the Gas Turbines to Bayelsans as promised by the State Governor, Senator Douye Diri.
“And so with the level of work already done, we are very optimistic that going by the governor’s promise, that we are going to complete installation of the new 60MW Gas Turbines and supply electricity to Bayelsans by the end of the year.
Kemenanabo who also bared his mind on the State of relationship between host community of the project, Elebele and the Bayelsa Electricity Company Ltd stressed that the firm and the community enjoy a very cordial working relationship, saying the host community has been very cooperative and has continued to synergize with the firm for timely completion of the project without any form of impediment.
“Elebele, the host community of the project has been very cooperative. Infact Elebele describes itself as Bayelsa’s most peaceful community. And so we have been enjoying a cordial relationship with the people and leadership of the community”, the BEC Boss said.
Also speaking, the Technical Adviser to the State Governor on Media(Print) and Public Affairs, Comrade Wisdom Ikuli described Governor Diri’s infrastructural project to those executed in the old Rivers State by the late Chief Melford Okilo as governor of the old State.
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 the State, noting that the governor’s giant strides are not limited to electricity alone, but in all facet of his ‘ASSURED Prosperity’ administration.
It would be recalled that following last year’s vandalism on the PHED company’s transmission lines supplying power to Bayelsa at the Ahoada-West Local Government Area axis of Rivers State and parts of Bayelsa State, the State Governor, Senator Douye Diri promised to purchase and install a new 60MW Gas fired Turbines to power the state.
The Technical Adviser further admonish mischief makers in the state to access what the governor had done and still counting on more projects before the end of his tenure to appreciate the administration’s commitment toward people oriented projects that will stand the test of time.
