The Federal Executive Council has approved Nigeria’s annual
payment of $2m to the West African Power Pool.
Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, disclosed this to State House
correspondents at the end of the meeting at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja.
Mamman said the approval was given at the weekly meeting of the
council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The pool is about having synergy within the West African
region.“The decision has been taken by ECOWAS, it is for the
generation of electricity in the region, so as to have more
constant and steady power supply.
“It is like the national grid in Nigeria. So, we are going
to have a regional grid. It means in case there is a failure in one
country, another can supplement. The $2m is a
contribution.”
Minister for Information, Lai Mohammed said $2m was not a gift
to ECOWAS but Nigeria’s contribution.
“The West African Power Pool is made up of all West African
countries because each member state contributes annually to the
cost of power transmission across the pool.
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“The consequence is that if there is a problem in one
country, it could inadvertently affect the other country.“This was
created in 1999 by authorities of the West African Heads of State.
It is a common pool and every country has its own section and our
contribution for this year is $2m.
“It is not as if we are giving $2m to ECOWAS, we are simply
paying our own contribution for the transmission from Nigeria to
other West African countries and viz-visa,”Mohammed said
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