The Chattered Institute of Power Engineers of Nigeria (CIPEN), has advised the Federal Government to use the country’s professionals to tackle the challenges in the power sector.

Mr Israel Abraham, the President, CIPEN made the call in an interview with Newsmen in Abuja on Sunday.

Abraham while speaking on the epileptic power supply being experienced in the country currently, said that there was the need for the government to trust its own power engineers to solve the problem.

“Government must trust its own. You must trust your own people. As it stands, government does not trust its own people.

”You want to develop the power sector. Who are your appointees? Do you call the professionals to sit down to say, this is it, gentlemen, what do we do?,” he said.

Abraham said that when government want to look into the issues in the power sector, they should look for the experts in the system, sit with them and discuss the way forward.

According to him, CIPEN has written a lot of memos, papers and even stated their position.

He said that most of the countries that were developed today trusted their professionals and believed in them.

” So is the government trusting the power engineers to take over the power sector? If the government is doing that, then we will not say the responsibility is not on us.

”As it stands, we cannot take responsibility for what is not under our purview.

”We tell them this is what to do. They tell you they have their experts from other countries,”he said.




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