The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) said it has initiated and is working on 422 new electrification projects across the six geopolitical zones under the 2017 capital appropriation. It also hopes to complete another 197 projects that were approved under the 2017 budget appropriation.
A breakdown of the new projects obtained from the agency yesterday showed that the North Central comprising Abuja as the lion share with 93 projects. The lowest share of the federal intervention rural electrification efforts went to the SouthWest which has 43 projects.
There are 52 of the new capital projects are in the North East, 77 others are in the North West, 76 are in the Southeast, and 81 projecys are being executed in the South South geopolitical zone.
The Managing Director, Damilola Ogunbiyi according to the agency signed the contract agreement of over 300 contractors for year 2017 Capital Projects last Thursday at its headquarters in Abuja.
The agency also said about 197 projects that were initiated before and during the 2016 budget year were in progress.
The projects include the execution of 27 such projects in the Northeast. The Northwest 34 others are sited in the Northwest; in the North Central region, the agency is carrying out 41 electrification project while it has 17 projects in the Southeast.
REA is also handling 26 rural electrification projects in the Southwest another 52 projects in the Southsouth, the data revealed.
