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Nigeria: 75 Questions for Senator Liyel Imoke
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Leadership (Abuja)
COLUMN
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Senator Liyel Imoke, former minister of power and steel, now governor of Cross River State, recently appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel which instituted a public hearing to review contracts awarded in the power sector by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in which he was a minister. He was asked 75 questions by the committee. Has Senator Imoke answered the questions?
1. What were the principal objectives of the Short-Term Action Plan (STAP) articulated by the NEPA Technical Board that you chaired between May 2000 and December 2001 and approved by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo?
2. Were any of the targets set out in the short-term action plan met by the Technical Board?
3. Did NEPA/PHCN attain the target objective of providing 4,000MW of available generating capacity at any time during your tenure as Chairman, NEPA Technical Board?
4. How much Federal Government funding was appropriated for NEPA during your tenure as Chairman, NEPA Technical Board?
5. How much of the appropriated funds were released to NEPA by the end of your tenure as Chairman, NEPA Technical Board?
6. What was the internally generated revenue profile of NEPA over the period of your tenure as its Technical Board Chairman?
7. What was the internally generated revenue profile of NEPA/PHCN over the period of your tenure as Minister of Power & Steel?
8. In your view was Due Process followed in the award of the contract for the 276MW gas-fired Afam V power plant to Siemens at a cost of Euro 140 million in 2000?
9. Was there any competitive or selective tendering for the contract?
10. Who was the final approving authority for this contract?
11. In your view was Due Process followed in the award of the contract for the rehabilitation of Units ST2 & ST 6 at Egbin Thermal Power Plant to Marubeni in 2000?
12. Was there any competitive or selective tendering for the contract?
13. Who was the final approving authority for this contract?
14. Are you aware of the contract cost recommended by NEPA for the execution of the Owerri-Ahoada- Yenagoa 132KV Transmission Line & Associated Substations for award to Messrs. Energo Nigeria Ltd in 1999/2000? <=N=3.2 billion>
15. At what price was the contract awarded to PIVOT ENGINEERING before your tenure as NEPA Technical Board Chairman? <=N=6.3 billion>
16. At the inception of the NEPA Technical Board, what was the re-negotiated price at which the contract was awarded to PIVOT ENGINEERING? <=N=3.6 billion>
17. What was the aggregate amount paid to PIVOT ENGINEERING for the same project between 2000 and 2005? <=N= 11 billion?>
18. Who originated the requests for price escalations of the subject contract, and for what justifications?
19. Were you the final approving authority for these cost upward revisions to the same project?
20. Did you participate in the preparation and adoption of the National Electric Power Policy (NEPP) 2000?
21. What were the cardinal objectives of the NEPP 2000, especially regarding the respective roles of Government and the private sector in the future development of the power sector, especially generation plants?
22. What was the major philosophical outlook of the Electric Power Sector Bill/Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005, particularly regarding the envisaged role of Government in the development of new power generation plants?
23. Before your appointment as Special Adviser to the President on Utilities in 1999 and subsequently as Chairman, NEPA Technical Board in 2000, what was your cognate experience in matters relating to the Electric Power Sector?
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24. How would you characterize the performance of the N EP A Technical Board in relation to its objectives as set out in the Short Term Action Plan?
25. Did NEPA, under your leadership, achieve stable power supply to the nation by December 31,2001?
26. Given your performance during your tenure as Chairman, NEPA Technical Board, do you think you elevation to Minister of Power & Steel was deserved?
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