Electricity: Nigeria threatens to cut supply to Togo

Energy
Thursday, 19 July 2018 16:11
Electricity: Nigeria threatens to cut supply to Togo

(Togo First) - Togo’s minister of power, Marc Ably-Bidamon has recently called a meeting to assess and settle its debt to Nigeria, in the framework of their power supply contract.

This, just a few days after Nigeria threatened to cut power supply to its international buyers which are Togo, Benin and Niger.  

The threat from Nigeria should motivate Togolese authorities to speed up and increase investments towards the implementation of the 2030 global electrification strategy which the government recently adopted. Under this strategy, let us recall, 50% of Togo should be electrified by 2020, 75% by 2025 and 100% by 2030, via the installation of thermal and solar plants.

Togo so far still gets 50% of the power it uses from countries like Nigeria and Ghana.

Fiacre E. Kakpo

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