Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State and vice president-elect Kashim Shettima have received President Muhammadu Buhari in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital for the commissioning of a new gas plant project constructed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
The new gas plant project which is called the Maiduguri Emergency Power Project (MEPP) is a power generation project to provide reliable and sustainable electricity to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, and its environs.
The Project was necessitated by the extended power outages experienced in the region in the last nine years.
These outages were caused by vandalism and insurgency attacks on power supply infrastructure and have resulted in a decline in economic activities in the region.
Buhari was accompanied by Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Shariff, and Minister of humanitarian affairs, Sadiya Farouq, among other dignitaries.
Tribune/Olusola Akintonde
