Abandoned US$38.7 million power plant project

On a motion by Nnamdi Ezechi (PDP, Delta), the House of Representatives mandated its Committee on Power to investigate the abandonment of Phase II of the US$38.7 million Okpai Independent Power Plant, an NNPC and Nigerian Agip Oil Company joint venture in Ndokwa East, Delta State, by Saipem Contracting Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Agip Oil Company. The expansion, meant to add 450 MW to the plant's 480 MW, began in 2017 and was abandoned at 90 percent completion. The motion said the contract sum was unclear.