By Godwin Oghre

Sapele — The people of Sapele and environs, in Delta State, yesterday, were jubilant over the restoration of public power supply to the community, five years after, following the coming of a new private power company, FSG Integrated Power Ltd, to Ogboromo community, Sapele.

Managing Director of the company, Charlse Abeghe, said: “The project is in four phases. The first which will gulp $172 million will start in the last quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018, and it is scheduled to generate 100 MW. We shall hit 500MW in the last phase, when the project is expected to have cost four times what was expended on the first phase.”

On how the company hopes to address the unending disruption and vandalization of oil installations in the Niger Delta region, Abeghe said, “We are not relying entirely on gas as most of our energy source, we will also be deriving energy from waste energy.”

The most senior man in the community, Pa Charles Ohiambe, and the community scribe, Mr Samson Eruteyan, who spoke for the people, said “Our joy knows no bounds. We have now been relieved from the challenges of total power outage in the last five years. We wish to thank the state governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa for his foresight and we give God the glory.”