EEP not mere street-lighting project for universities-ministry

 

 

 

The Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has said that the Energizing Education Programme (EEP ) of the Federal Government is not a mere street-lighting project.

According to a statement by the Ministry, the Programme is aimed at rejuvenating the nation’s education system by providing uninterrupted power supply to a total of 37 federal universities and seven university teaching hospitals.
The statement noted that the clarification has become necessary in the light of the misrepresentation of the Programme as a mere “Solar –powered streetlight project in nine universities across the country valued at N10bn,” a newspaper (not The Nation), while purportedly reporting the proceedings of the 2018 Budget Defence Meeting of the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy attended by the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency on Thursday, 14th December 2017.
The statement said the report claimed that the Senate “criticized a solar-powered streetlight project” thereby deliberately misrepresenting the Energizing Education Programme (EEP). Far from being a “streetlight” project, the EEP in fact seeks to rejuvenate the education system through electrifying a total of 37 federal universities and 7 university teaching hospitals, with Independent Power Plants (IPPS), which will boost effective learning, innovation and advancement through uninterrupted power supply.

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