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The Speaker of the House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday said the nation had continually spent huge sums of money on the power sector from the commencement of this democratic dispensation (1999) till date without any tangible result to show.
Dogara said rather than improve the sector, it has always ended up even with bigger challenges.
The Speaker noted that former administrations from 1999-2015 had spent over 2.7 trillion on the sector yet Nigerians still live in darkness.
Dogara spoke at a workshop put together by the House of Representatives to find solution to the recurrent power failure in the country.
His observation was part of the 23 key issues he raised at the two-day event ongoing at Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that Dogara was first elected to the House in 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He remained in the party until the 2015 general elections when he crossed to the All Progressives Congress, APC and was subsequently elected Speaker 2015.
In his opening address, Dogara said, “Perhaps the most important question is what happened to the N2.74 trillion spent on the sector from 1999-2015?
“Why is it that the more we spent on the power sector, the more darkness we attract?
“I am confident that the array of stakeholders gathered here today are eminently capable of dealing with these and many more related questions and puzzles that exist and will arise in the course of deliberations.”