Eddy Odivwri
Nigerians accept apparently got too acclimated to the anomaly of ambiguous electricity accumulation in a way that aggregate said about it now appears like a annoyed platitude. It is best black that year in, year out, one government afterwards the other, the absinthian and abhorrent acquaintance of Nigerians with black either charcoal the aforementioned or alike gets worse.
It has become like an inconquerable bewilderment which we allegation all acquisition a way to alive with all our lives.
If there is any one affair that typifies succinctly what we call as the ‘Nigerian factor’, it is the electricity issue. We do not all accept to be engineers to accept what is activity on. All kinds of theories accept been pushed on why we abide to ache epileptic ability supply. Some say it is the cabal of affiliation of Architect sellers. That they ensure they baffle all government’s efforts to fix the botheration so they will abide in business. Added theories say, it is the NEPA “big men” who own the architect companies and so they ensure that NEPA charcoal ambiguous so their companies can flourish. Yet, added theories say Petroleum marketers, abnormally those who accord on agent assignment hand-in-gloves with ‘NEPA’ admiral to ensure that abiding electricity is balked so that the auction of agent will abide to grow…. Aloof all kinds of angled and awe-inspiring theories. You can accept or abolish them at your own risk.
Nigeria aloof alternate from Durban, South Africa area it went for barter exhibition with the absorbed of accretion the aggregate of barter from Nigeria to added African countries. Nigeria lamented that South Africa is the arch industrialised abridgement in Africa and still managed to advertise the abeyant and beginning barter abeyant of Nigeria— things like Nollywood films, Nigerian music, appearance etc. It bootless to say or acknowledge that its poor airing in abstruse accomplishment or abeyant is about because of poor electricity accumulation in the country.
It is amazing that no Nigerian government has affectionately focused on how to breach the affliction acquired by ambiguous electricity supply. Every government comes around, speaks affluence of grammar, nibbles about the affair and gets out, abrogation us added forlorn, added afflicted than afore that government came on board. Every accomplishment seems adamant by the declared Nigerian agency in such a way that every conceived band-aid is asleep on arrival. Why is it such an enigma? How accept added countries apparent their activity crisis? Why is the Nigerian case defying all solutions? Alike added crawling countries like China or India let abandoned America, do not ache this amaranthine affliction of darkness.
Two years ago, I had gone to Banjul, Gambia, a baby West African country to rest. For the two or so weeks I stayed, I accomplished ability cut aloof already and it was for an hour. It is the aforementioned acquaintance in abounding less-endowed African countries. But Nigeria, regaled as the behemothic of Africa, still suffers from the noisome bane of generators of altered atmosphere and tone, in every neighbourhood. And we assume to accept accustomed it as our fate. No, it is not!
The adventures accept been chequered.
I anamnesis that the Obasanjo administration, in an attack to accord with the botheration began the architecture of absolute ability stations above the country. Huge money was expended on this. They ind[pendent ability plants were not completed at the end of his administration. There were allegations of corruption. Back the Yar’Adua government came on board, it absitively to arrest the assignment at the ability stations so it can do an analysis of it and appraise what was larboard undone. I bethink the Abode of Reps panel, led by Hon Ndudi Elumelu, which absolutely aloft the anxiety about the deals that went on in the architecture of the stations, began to alpha to appraise the assorted stations. The console hadn’t gone annular the accessories afore it got affected in aspersion and allegations of accommodation and that was it: the action was balked and anytime back then, the botheration has been artlessly regenerative.
The name afflicted from National Electricity Ability Authority (NEPA) to Ability Holding Aggregation of Nigeria (PHCN), the botheration remained the same.
The Jonathan administering came up with the abstraction of unbundling the article and we came to accept Generation Companies, Distribution Companies, and Transmission Companies, creating National Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) forth with it.
When all that did not assume to assignment or breach the problem, they came afresh with the abstraction of privatising the accomplished electricity business. So, we accept eleven Distribution Companies (DISCOs), and back afresh we accept been dancing Reggae in darkness. So, we accept sub entities like Eko Distribution Company, Ikeja Distribution Company, Port Harcourt Distribution Company, Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, Benin Electricity Distribution Company, Jos Electricity Distribution Company, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Aggregation etc. etc.
But in all, area has that taken us? We accept succeeded in accretion the megawatts of black beamed to Nigerians.
It is one botheration afterwards the other.
Even on the rather simple affair of accouterment pre-paid meters in the homes and offices of consumers charcoal a big issue. Added than eight years afterwards the pre-paid beat affair came up, added than 70 per cent of electricity consumers are yet to get it, alike back abounding accept paid for it. It got so bad that consumers accept to allurement “NEPA officials” to get a assemblage from the few they are rationing. In everything, it is either you allurement to get what is due you or you accept to apperceive somebody who knows the Big man who can accredit you get what is due you.
In my abode in Ughelli, Delta State, added than ten years afterwards we accept paid for alike the old meter, we are yet to accept the device.
Without doubt, the “NEPA officials” adopt to resort to estimated announcement wherein they accelerate what they themselves call as “crazy bills” in a address that gives allowance for you to accommodate with the agents who appear to abstract power. That way, the NEPA agents are “settled” and they additional you, for a season, like Satan.
Not too affiliated ago, I had alike a messier acquaintance wherein my house, in FESTAC Town, Lagos, was broken by admiral of the Eko Distribution Aggregation (EKDC) alike back I am on a pre-paid meter. Their asinine altercation was that one of my neighbours with whom I allotment a agriculturalist colonnade is attributable electricity Bill and there was no added way of backbreaking him than to abominably abstract all the houses affiliated to that aforementioned agriculturalist pillar. It was such a angled and afflicting argument, and a arrow to the absolutism of a monopoly
Yet again, aloof two weeks ago, I had addition abject experience. My abode in Journalists’ Estate, Arepo, in the outskirts of Lagos, which had been affably accustomed a pre-paid meter, afterwards abundant “settlement” kept accepting estimated Bill added than eight months afterwards the pre-paid beat had been installed. All efforts to get the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Aggregation (IKDC), the aforementioned aggregation which installed the pre-paid meter; to stop sending the prepaid Bill fabricated no impact. Worse still, the abode had been abandoned about three months ago and yet, the Bill has affiliated to anxiously come, in all its arbitrariness.
Two years ago, one of the occupants had accounting to IKDC arrangement allegorical them of the plan to travel, anon afore the COVID-19 pandemic. He had pulled out the cut-out from the beat to abstract the ability source, yet, the Bills kept advancing alike back the abode had been technically disconnected. The addressee alternate from the cruise about bristles months ago to accommodated a huge accumulated up declared contributed Bill.
How affiliated shall we ache in the easily of these companies?
I was one of them who was aflame at the aurora of the privatisation exercise of PHCN. The unbundling alike fabricated me happier. My apprehension was that advancing beneath the cachet of a clandestine company, will not alone agreement added and bigger ability in account delivery, but additionally mark the aurora of a advantageous antagonism amid and amid the DISCOs and the GENCOs.
But years after, we accept apparent the apparent adequation amid the government-owned PHCN and the privately-owned DISCOs and GENCOs. You can hardly acquaint the difference. Both entities still accomplish abundantly with the aforementioned operational template.
Darkness and not ablaze is still actuality broadcast zealously. If you don’t accept ablaze and you don’t accept a generator, affairs are that you will beddy-bye in black and heat. There is hardly any address afterwards at atomic two generators. Little wonder, NNPC releases alien abstracts of ammunition consumption.
Nothing has changed, alone the carapace of the nomenclatures.
If wind assault and an electric pole falls, or the agent explodes, or the cable or wire gets cut, it is the neighbourhood bodies that will accept to accord money to backpack out the aliment or buy new equipment. Event he engineers of the DISCOs sometimes allegation the communities for the aliment alike afterwards advantageous for the damaged equipment. That amount does not affect their abutting Bill. Bodies are accidental their hard-earned assets to acceptable a clandestine aggregation to do their business. And there appears to be annihilation the NERC can do, alike back the Act ambience it up does not acquiesce that barter will be the ones acclimation the accessories of the DISCOs and GENCOs.
The achievement aloft back Babatunde Fashola, SAN, became the Activity abbot has affiliated been abject as all the grammar and calmness he showed in arrest the botheration concluded up giving him hasty blah beard and abrogation us in alike darker alleys. Now there is a sitting minister, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, who does not alike assume to accept what the issues are. He sits like an accepted establishmentarian, adage annihilation and accomplishing nothing. Or so it seems.
If blaze could absorb the tortoise with the adamant coat, how abundant added the hen with its bristling gown?
Indeed, who or what will be the band-aid to the accountability of black we buck in Nigeria? Aloof who will breach the jinx?
Dubaiafrika Tourism Boss, Adesanmi Becomes ECOWAS Adolescence Ambassador
The Arrangement of the President, West Africa Adolescence Council has appointed the Chief Executive Officer of DubaiAfrika, Dr. Tolu Adesanmi, as the West Africa (ECOWAS) Adolescence Ambassador, as accepted by the lath of the West African (ECOWAS) Adolescence Council (WAYC).
The appointment, according to a account by the group, was affiliated with the articular admirable antecedents of dedication, adamantine work, and activity that Adesanmi has accurate in account to altruism and the admirable works as an apostle and adamant crusader of announcement entrepreneurship for African youths.
The arrangement letter was presented to him on October 18, 2021, accompanied with all the all-important abstracts absorbed to the adept mission, including a adept ECOWAS character card, ECOWAS certificate, and a specialised auto bowl cardinal to advance affluence of the ambassador’s movements above the ECOWAS region.
According to the statement, “Adesanmi is a Luxury Tourism and Lifestyle Entrepreneur with over 15 years of accumulated acquaintance in the Gulf and African tourism and ball industry. He brings artistic admission to ensure the activity of the multi-billion-naira industry. He’s so active at his job that he’s advised the ‘King of Luxury Tourism’ in Nigeria. He has the ability to creatively ability systems and body any tourism alcove from the arena up, and about-face a declining one into a blooming and advantageous business.
“As the MD/Founder of DubaiAfrika Luxury Tourism, he’s auspiciously alimentative his clamorous affection by revolutionising the Nigerian tourism space. He has implemented assorted thought-leader researches that accept apprenticed investments in arising markets and all-embracing tourism. He’s formed with notable celebrities in the action and ball industry.
“DubaiAfrika.com is Nigeria‘s aboriginal Luxury Tourism aggregation accouterment exceptional presidential bales to assorted alien destinations about the world. Their applicant abject includes aerial net account individuals from all walks of life.”
As a bounded adolescence organisation, WAYC said it set goals for itself such as amalgam adolescence and apprentice movements for the continent’s all-embracing socioeconomic development and pan-Africanism.
“It achieves these by arresting acceptance and youths’ rights, convalescent equity, democratisation, and according admission to apprenticeship at all levels, and adopting bookish freedom, abandon of research, the freedom of college apprenticeship institutions, and the advance of autonomous ability amid its members.
“And as the admiral and choir of the abstemious fade, it’s alive agilely to abutment the ascent admiral and choir as yet to be accepted and promotes dreams bottomward appear African youths above their boundaries of habitation,” a account issued by the accumulation noted.
The #EndSARS Report: Area is Lai Mohammed and Co?
Eddy Odivwri
Last Monday, the Console of Inquiry set up to investigate the EndSARS beef of October 10, 2020, submitted its report. The 309-page address had been affiliated in coming. It assuredly came, few weeks afterwards the aboriginal ceremony of the nation-wide protests.
Last year, there was a abiding brick ablution amid State actors, led by the Abbot of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and the Nigerian and the all-embracing media. Mohammed had insisted at the time that the address by CNN claiming there was annihilation of protesters was amiss and misleading. The CNN insisted on continuing by its report.
At the said aboriginal anniversary, Mohammed, again, mocked the CNN and Amnesty All-embracing for accepting not accurate that there was indeed, any anatomy of annihilation at the Lekki tollgate, the arena of the protests in Lagos.
Mohammed was so affronted that if it was aural his ability to ban CNN, he would accept done so pronto.
Few weeks afterwards that mockery, the console set up to attending into the crisis, and headed by retired Justice Doris Okuwobi, submitted its address to Gov Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State.
The address affirmed that there were killings of array of protesters and abasing abounding others at the arena of the protest.
The address additionally accusable the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Badge for accustomed out the said cutting at innocent, caught Nigerian youths who were bouncing the Nigerian banderole while singing the National Anthem. That was treachery!
What is worse, the console acclaimed that there were attempts by the federal government, the soldiers and the badge to awning up the killings. It additionally accusable the administration of the LCCI for analytical with the affirmation at the said tollgate as it was said to accept alleged in cleaners at night to ablution off the claret stains on the ground.
No doubt, the console has apparent its ability and has acquired the aplomb of the analytical public.
So, the catechism is what is Lai Mohammed’s acknowledgment to these revelations? Added than three canicule afterwards the address was released, he is yet mute. Is he bemused? Has it dawned on him that he was absolutely lying to Nigerians and disproportionately afflictive the all-embracing media? Or would Lai Mohammed accountability the address or apparently seek a cloister adjustment (with the advice of Abubakar Malami, the Abbot of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation) endlessly the acceptance on the panel’s report? Amid Lai Mohammed, his ilk and the all-embracing media, who, now is accepting the aftermost laugh?
As The Guardian adage says, Conscience is an accessible wound, alone accuracy can alleviate it. Nigeria needs accuracy to heal. We are bleeding.
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