SPDC to provide gas for 7.5MW electricity for Rivers community
Port Harcourt -- The Rivers State House of Assembly has directed the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, SPDC, to provide gas equivalent of 7.5 megawatts, MW, of electricity to Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State.
This was the resolution reached at a meeting organised by the Rivers State House Committee on Public Complaints and Petitions over the incessant protest and blockade of transmission station on Afam by Oyigbo youths over electricity supply in the area.
The meeting was attended by the representatives of SPDC, Rivers State Ministry of Power and other stakeholders to provide lasting solution to persistent blackout in Afam, Oyigbo despite playing host to six power generating plants and transmission stations.
Chairman of the Committee, Mr Evans Bipi, said the resolution was reached following petitions from the people of Oyigbo over the failure of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company to supply power to the area.
Bipi explained that the Committee has also mandated other multinational companies operating in the area to contribute their quota to ensure that lasting peace returns to Oyigbo.
"There has been a little problem between PHED and Oyigbo Local Government Area. So a petition was sent to the House and it was referred to the Committee on Public Complaints and Petitions to look into it.
"So, we invited the Ministry of Power, SPDC, PHED and every other company operating within Afam, and today we have resolved that
Shell should give gas equivalent of what they are going to spend as light, while other companies will connect light to Oyigbo, in order to achieve permanent peace in the area," he said.
Bipi also disclosed that the Committee will meet with the Managing Director of SPDC to ensure full implementation of
the resolution.