Donald Duke reveals how he will solve electricity issue if elected president
A presidential aspirarnt, Donald Duke has explained how he would fix the electricity problem in the country if elected president. Duke, who is contesting the presidential election in 2019 on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), is confident that the task would take him less than three years to be done. In an […]
A presidential aspirarnt, Donald Duke has explained how he would fix the electricity problem in the country if elected president.
Duke, who is contesting the presidential election in 2019 on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), is confident that the task would take him less than three years to be done.
In an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Duke believes the country must leverage its abundance of gas.
He said it would take him “maximum of 36 months” to get the electricity issue sorted.
“This is a nation that flares until recently 2.5 billion cubic feet of gas – that is equivalent to about 25 million litres of diesel”, he said.
The former governor, however, said the nation should “have a nationwide gas grid where literally in every senatorial district there is gas.”
“Get manufacturing off the national grid, put them on gas. I will charge the gas relatively low, really low because you are flaring it.
“Leave domestic and small scale (businesses) on the national grid. In 24 months, you can have a national gas grid; in 24 months, you can have gas throughout this country if you are serious”, he added.
