PRESIDENT Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has given a marching order to all ministers serving in his cabinet to ensure that they complete all abandoned projects littered across the country to give the people a feeling of true governance.

Making this disclosure at Otukpo, Benue State on Thursday after inspecting a station of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) abandoned since 2002, Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili said the President was unhappy with the number of abandoned projects across the country.

She said that the president was eager to ensure that Nigerians from all walks of life and all sections of the country get access to democracy dividends before the end of his tenure.

She urged Nigerians to assist the Federal Government to work for them, regretting that in some instances Nigerians frustrate efforts of the government by vandalising projects situated in their communities.

According to her: "President Yar'Adua is not happy about the number of abandoned projects littered across the nation and some other projects that are about to be abandoned. He has therefore given a marching order to all ministers to sort out the problem of abandoned projects in their respective ministries".

However about 24 days to December, power generation was yesterday put at 3000 megawatts, half of the projected 6,000 megawatts by December.

Indications emerged that though government might eventually achieve an installed capacity close to 6000 megawatts, actual electricity generation might still be far from the target by the end of 2009.

At the moment, about 400 million standard cubic feet of gas is being sourced to power the plants, many of which are still undergoing rehabilitation.

Though he sounded optimistic that government would surmount the challenges and attain installed capacity and actual supply by December as proposed, Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola, admitted that gas remained a huge challenge.

Speaking at the 2009 ministerial press briefing of his

ministry, he stressed that 400 million standard cubic feet of gas would be required to attain 6000 megawatts by December and 2.5 billion standard cubic feet of gas would be required to achieve the long-term plan of 10,000 megawatts by December 2011.

He revealed that the gas problem was also a major challenge facing the independent power producers.

He confirmed that over 70 million Nigerians were still not

connected to the national grid.