The Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji, has said the power sector would become a veritable brand ambassador for Nigeria in the next three years, given the attention the Federal Government was paying to restore sanity to the sector.

Professor Nnaji was speaking on Wednesday, when the Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Ali Koksal, led a high-power delegation that comprised captains of Turkish industrial grants on a courtesy visit to him.

Accompanying the delegation also was Nigerian ambassador to Turkey, Ahmed Mallammadori, who himself, was a former Minister of State for Power.

The minister told the delegation that the ministry had already established ground rules for the sector, which he urged the Turkish team to understudy and decide which area it had comparative advantage.

He told the visitors that the General Electric (GE) of the United States of America (USA) had set the ball rolling by its readiness to construct a 10,000MW of electric power plant in Nigeria and advised that other investors could key into the GE project on the condition that they would use the GE components for their projects.

“Identify what you want to do, you can begin a new project of your own or get involved in an ongoing one,” Nnaji enjoined the delegation.

The minister added that the present administration would want investors to clearly identify what they intended to do and begin work without delay, pointing out that existing templates in the sector made things simpler and easier for prospective investors.

Earlier, the chairman and the chief executive officer of Nata Group of Companies, Mr Namik Tanik and Mr Cuneyt Kandenir, respectively, had told the minister that Turkey was a global authority in infrastructure provision, large mall construction, wind power, petrochemicals, refineries and railway construction and that the team came because its attention had been drawn to the emerging market in the Nigerian electric power sector.

They drew attention to the impact Turkish technology had made in places in Middle East, Russia and China and promised to do same in Nigeria.

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