The Katsina State Government says it has installed over 400 transformers to electrify 200 rural communities in the past eight years.
The Special Adviser to Gov. Bello Masari on Power and Energy, Mr Mansur Muhammad stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Katsina.
He said the project were executed in the eight years of Masari’s administration in the state.
Muhammad said the governor created the office of the SA on Power and Energy to advise him, liaise and interface with relevant federal agencies and organisations in the sector, to improve power supply in the state.
“The state government has done a lot of projects on electricity supply and distribution in rural areas.
“We are also doing a lot in building power infrastructure, we have been adding capacity at various injection levels,” he said.
The governor’s aid said that work on the 330KVA Kano-Katsina project had reached advance stage, adding that the project started in 2008 was abandoned by the previous administration.
“The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari revived the projects and all the contractors were brought back on site.
“They are still on site trying to build the 330KVA towers, the project has reached advance stage.
“The line will supply power on the highest voltage level that we have in Nigeria, with 330KVA and two numbers of 150MVA transformers.
“It will give 250MGW in Katsina and there is also another 132KVA line going to Kurfi, Dutsinma, Kankara and Malumfashi,” he said.
He said that other power projects were ongoing in Daura, Mashi and Funtua Local Government Areas of the state.
“The projects will reduce unemployment, insecurity and boost the state’s economy”. (NAN)
