Lagos Airport To Get N1bn Generator

Kunle Oderemi, Lagos - 19.12.2009


A NEW lease of life awaits passengers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos as the Federal Government is set to boost power supply to the airport.
The government has awarded a contract for the procurement of a new generator valued at about N1 billion for the airport. The Minister of Aviation, Mr. Babatunde Omotoba, said recently in Lagos that the existing generator at the airport could no longer cope with the energy demand of the airport.
According to him, the generator was procured more than 30 years ago for the airport, which is the busiest in the country. He decried the poor condition of some facilities at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, blaming the occasional outages at the airport on the old generator.
He said a significant proportion of the resources of his ministry, parastatals and agencies under him was committed to the provision of modern equipment in 2009, while the focus for the incoming year would be the provision of infrastructure.
He said there was a remarkable improvement in the aviation industry now in terms of safety, as his ministry spent 70 per cent of its budget in 2009 in providing necessary equipment.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/19122009/news/news5.html

This is nothing but total acceptance of power failure in the nation. A whole N1billion Generator!.

GENERATOR FOR £4MILLION (1 BILLION NAIRA). that is enough to built INDEPENDENT POWER SCHEME FOR THE AIRPORT AND ITS ENVIRON.

OUR 'LEADERS' ARE SQUARE PEGS IN A ROUND HOLE. THEY ARE COMPLETELY BRAINLESS EXCEPT FOR WHAT THEIR POCKET DICTATES

In Nigeria, there is nothing like long term planning. All they do is what will get them instant result, even at the expense of the cost and it not lasting that long. N1billion naira, na small money?

ONE BILLION NAIRA 4 ONE generator? O Chineke Nna!!

slap1:

ONE BILLION NAIRA 4 ONE generator? O Chineke Nna!!

Tell me how you want him to make his own money, with the presido at the brink.

Can't this amount provide solar power or other alternatives?

agitator:

Tell me how you want him to make his own money, with the presido at the brink.

Do they really want to kill the President before his time by emptying our accounts before his arrival?. Anyway, I wonder why a generator can cost so much. Let us atleast fear GOD while stealing.