The Federal Government says it has kept its word on the first phase of a plan to clear old debts owed to power generation companies, and it’s now looking to raise even more money from investors.
Speaking Tuesday in Abuja at an investors’ forum for a new N729bn bond, Olu Verheijen, President Tinubu’s energy adviser, said about N501bn had already gone into settling legacy debts, N300bn in cash and N201bn through bond instruments.
Of that, N333bn has reached eight generation companies running 17 power plants. She also confirmed the government paid out roughly N63.5bn as the first bond coupon, right on schedule, on July 14.
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Verheijen framed the whole effort as a trust-building exercise. Her point, essentially, was that investors keep coming back to markets where governments actually do what they say they’ll do.
She put it simply: “markets reward performance, not promises, which is why the administration chose to deliver first before asking for more funding”.
She described the strategy as turning old debt burdens into fresh liquidity that can flow back into Nigeria’s power sector, hopefully improving how it runs and rebuilding the kind of confidence that gets bigger investments moving.
The success of this first round, she said, is what’s now paving the way for the much larger second bond.
