REA Ready For Partnership In Electrifying Underserved Areas

By Nkiru Njemanze

The Rural Electrification Agency says it is ready to partner with the private sector to help electrify the underserved areas in the country.

The Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, Mr Ahmad Salihijoh Ahmad made this known while signing a memorandum of understanding with the Africa Mini-Grid Developers Association, AMDA in Abuja.

Salihijoh Ahmad who emphasized that government alone cannot achieve the herculean task of electrifying every part of the country noted that a partnership with AMDA would scale up operations and ensure the sustainability of the Mini-Grid sector.

He said that the MOU would play a vital role in strengthening and accelerating Mini-Grid development in Nigeria.

Responding to the Managing Director of the Africa Mini-Grid Developers Association, Olamide Afuye who pledged his unalloyed support towards ensuring that Nigerians have access to renewable and sustainable energy disclosed that the country needed to deploy about forty thousand Mini-Grids to achieve the sustainable development goal seven in the year twenty thirty.

In a remark, the head, project management unit, Nigeria Electrification Project, Mr Abba Aliyu said the project is currently working in fifteen Universities under the Energizing Education Program Phase Two to ensure that no part of the country is left behind in terms of electricity.

Edited By Grace Namiji