Lagos Set To Deploy Nuclear Energy – Fashola

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said there was a need for uncommon thinking to end the power challenge battling the country.

He warned that if Nigeria did not get Power right, there was no way it could achieve development in other sectors of the economy.

Fashola spoke at an interactive business session with members of the Organised Private Sector at the Lekki Free Zone, according to report from The Punch “We know that if the power sector does well the state will do well and the people will benefit,” he said.

He said his administration was working to achieve the commitments it made at the Ehingbeti Summit 2014 about energising the state.

He said, “We spent over two hours at the Monday Executive Council meeting deliberating on Nuclear Energy for the state and how it could be deployed in use in the state.

That shows you we intend to address issues of Power. We sat down with one of the foremost experts, a Nigerian, who took us through all the protocols that are needed for establishing it.

“In less than three years we can establish it, especially when we need not do distribution, but places like the Lekki Free Zone can have the Nuclear Power between 15 and 24 months.”

The Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Mrs. Olusola Oworu, said the meeting was established to articulate the problems of the private sector with a view to offering solutions to them.

She said, “The meeting was held because the government is interested in knowing the problems of the private sector operators.

“If we do not want to hear about where the shoe pinches and where it hurts and what we can do about it, we will not have this kind of open and expansive interaction and meeting.”

Present at the occasion were the Special Adviser on Commerce and Industry, Mr. Seye Oladejo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Wale Raji, Executive Chairman, Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Tunde Fowler, Chairman Lekki Free Zone, Mr. Olusegun Jawando, Managing Director Lekki Free Zone, Mr. Ding Yonghua, Head of Chinese Chancery in Lagos, Mr. Liu Kan, captains of industries, stakeholders and other state government officials.