By 2024, the federal government wants to provide more Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in the nation with an eight-hour power supply.
The President Bola Tinubu administration will collaborate closely with the Federal Government’s parastatal Rural Electrification Agency (REA) to accomplish this.
Temitola Adekunle-Johnson, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and MSMEs, made this statement during Channels Television’s special end-of-year show, “2023: Year of Transition.”
“We are in deep discussion with the REA. trying to install solar-powered access for MSMEs across many markets,” he said on Sunday.
“What we are doing is that where you have a market that has a cluster of small businesses – maybe a thousand of them – we are trying to power those markets to ensure that these MSMEs come into their businesses daily, they have guaranteed eight hours of light.”
To ensure that the project sees the light of day, the presidential aide noted that the immediate past administration did a test run in Ariaria Market in Aba, Abia State.
