The Senate Committee on National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure has commended the agency producing machines powered by renewable energies instead of fossil fuel.
The senate committee lauded NASENI for “championing local content development of solar-powered smart irrigation, tricycles, electric motorbikes and others with accelerated technology transfer”.
The Chairman, Senate committee on NASENI, Senator Francis Onyewuchi, who led other members of the committee on an oversight function visit to the NASENI headquarters in Abuja on Monday, expressed satisfaction while being conducted by the Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NASENI, Khalil Halilu, round the NASENI products and facilities.
According to a statement by NASENI’s Direction of Information, Olusegun Ayeoyenikan, other products inspected included animal feed processing machines, transformers, and others.
Onyewuchi had stated, “The committee is quite pleased with the level of progress, and we want to assure NASENI of the support of the National Assembly to make sure that the agency drives effectively the vision of President Bola Tinubu in this area, and I want to also thank them for making Nigeria go green, moving from fuel to non-fossil products, it is quite commendable. We are quite pleased and we want to encourage them to do more.”
According to the committee members who spoke separately, with the NASENI home solar and the electric bikes, local businesses will be enhanced, the economy of the country will improve, and power challenges will be overcome if NASENI solar system is mass-produced.
Reacting, the NASENI boss said some products would be ready in the second quarter of the year, saying the agency is establishing a Technology Transfer Hub within its headquarters to bring eco-friendly technologies closer to people and to make it affordable both on a short and long-term basis.
“We promised Nigerians that by the first quarter of this year, they start seeing NASENI products, and today, you have witnessed three products – the solar irrigation system, which is like a generator, but completely solar and batteries; the second one is our electronic motorcycle and tricycle and the last one being the solar home system where you can power your entire house off-grid,” Halilu said.
Halilu assured Nigerians that NASENI-branded products would soon be available “in our efforts to build a national brand for the country”.
He added, if you are doing commercially viable products, they have to be affordable to the common man, and very soon, you will start seeing them in the market”.
Other lawmakers who made the trip include Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Sen. Aminu Abbas; Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on NASENI, Sen. Mohammed Onawo; Sen. David Jimkura; Sen. Sharafadeen Alli; and Sen. Abdullaziz Musa Yar’Adua.
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