/ 14 November 2000

OBASANJO FUMES AT POWER BOSSES

AN angry Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo this week ordered the bosses of the troubled state-run electricity company to meet agreed power supply targets, his office said. Output at the state-run National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) collapsed last week from 2300 to around 1200 megawatts after shutdowns at two power plants. The target set earlier this year by Obasanjo of 3000 megawatts by the end of December 2000 and 4000 megawatts by the end of 2002 “must still be achieved by all means and at all costs,” the president told NEPA managers. – AFP