SUPPLY OF SUBSTANDARD MATERIALS BY CONTRACTORS MAIN CAUSE OF CONTINUOUS NATIONAL GRID COLLAPSE

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has attributed the country’s erratic power supply to corruption within the power sector.

Olukoyede noted that the commission had uncovered a lot during its investigations of the continuous national grid collapse

Speaking during a visit by the House Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes in Abuja on Tuesday, Olukoyede lamented that contractors awarded projects to supply electrical equipment often opted for substandard materials.

He added that this practice was a major cause of frequent equipment failures, outages, and grid collapses.

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