Kwara to implement independent power through PPP

Kwara to implement independent power through PPP

Kwara to implement independent power through PPP

From Romoke W. Ahmad, Ilorin

The Kwara State Government is to deploy streetlights and independent power infrastructure within Ilorin metropolis and other major centres across the 16 local government areas of the state through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.

This was contained in a statement issued in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, by the State Public-Private Partnership Bureau which said the decision followed an extensive infrastructure asset availability and sufficiency review which revealed that streetlights and power infrastructure across the state were not meeting the needs of the people.

The statement added that the partner companies will be responsible for the design, finance and maintenance of both the streetlights and independent power infrastructure assets, and that a total of thirty-three companies had responded to the two separate requests for qualification for both the streetlights and independent power infrastructure projects.