By Aderogba George
The Association of Rural Electrification Contractors of Nigeria (ARECON) has commended the Managing Director, Rural Electricity Agency (REA), Mr Abba Aliyu, for enhancing transparency and efficiency the agency’s service delivery.
The National Public Relation Officer of ARECON, Mr Rotimi Raheem, gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.
According to him, it is only unpatriotic individuals that will always want to bring down REA and its management team.
“It is worthy to note that malicious and complete falsehood going on in the social media concerning Rural Electrification Agency will not help the electricity sector.
“ARECON has therefore aligned itself with the lofty ideas of Aliyu in moving the Agency forward in the right direction.
“We therefore advise the general public to shun any form of fake news, misinformation, disinformation and fabricated allegations against the REA.
“We know that in this era of fake news, some regressive minds would want to involve in mischievous endeavours to rundown a progressive individual.
“Such retrogressive minds have become uncomfortable with the open transparency been adopted by Aliyu and his management team in repositioning REA for a greater efficiency and project delivery,’’ Raheem said.
NAN reports that Aliyu has over 20 years of experience in energy policy and organisational development.
He also served as General Manager at the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc
His leadership has resulted in securing approval for the $750 million Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scaleup (DARES) facility from the World Bank.
REA has continued to roll out solar off-grid power solutions and grid extension to millions of unserved and underserved Nigerians.
REA has been successful particularly because of critical partnerships with key Government counterparts and both national and international stakeholders as well as the private sector (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)