By Tina Akannam

Dutse—Jigawa State government has pledged to revive  the abandoned  Dutse Independent Power Project, DIPP,  initiated by the former  governor, Saminu Turaki’s administration, adding that the imported  electric generators which would have supplied power to Dutse, the state capital and other cities in the state were still lying idle 10 years after they were purchased.

Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar spoke when he visited the power station yesterday and  lamented that the PDP government refused to install them due to reasons known best to it.

Badaru noted  that if installed, the generators would generate four megawatts of electricity  to the state capital and boost the economy of the people, assuring  that his government would soon revive the project to improve power situation for the benefit of the people.

The governor pointed out that though price of diesel was high, it was cheaper when compared with what ministries, extra  ministerial departments and government agencies used to  fuel their standby generators.

The Dutse  and Kazaure IPPs had begun test transmission, while that of Gujungu which generators were neatly packaged in the premises were initiated about 10 years ago by the Turaki’s administration.