The Nigeria Customs Service has handed over a total of 306 containers of Power Holding Company of Nigeria's equipment recovered from the seaports in Lagos to the Minister of State for Power, Mrs. Zainab Kuchi, at the APM terminal in Apapa.
Controller, Federal Operations Unit, Lagos, Mr. Dan Ugo, who represented the Customs-Comptroller General at the ceremony, noted that the service would continue to collaborate with the Federal Government in ensuring the success of the transformation of the power sector.
He stated that the service would not relent in its search for such abandoned NIPP-NEPA containers with a view to notifying the presidential taskforce on power.
The minister thanked the CGC for the integrity, which the service had demonstrated in guarding the recovered equipment.
She reiterated the determination of the Federal Government to solve the epileptic power situation in the country by ensuring that recovered equipment was quickly taken to project sites.
The minister was accompanied in the visit by the Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Power Mr. Beks Dagogo-Jacks, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr. Deere Awosika, Major General Olaniyi and other dignitaries.
