The state of power outage has become alarming and nothing is being done to curb such things, in kaduna a woman laments of the stress of coming home to meet no light after working for fifteen hours straight, in benin doctors cannot do an operation due to power outage and no source of electricity , in lagos a municipal building is shut down due to the problem of heat one worker was quoted" we are not chickens we will not work in such state what do you people take us for"? that statement clearly outlines the problem we are having in our world today no one is ready to stand up for his/her right because ther is no motivator psychologist call these the " by stander effect" as long as the masses dont move people tend to stay indoors now in our country we have suffered a crippling power system for about 11 years and counting what is sad is that before independence the condition was not as deplorable as it is now the then NEPA did not dare intervene with light situation even if they were servicing neighbouring countries, we have continued to keep silent on this issue but as a snail or tortoise reaches the finish line so is th agitation slowly building enough is enough! no more we will have to commend ahj nepa! we are tired of coming home to deplorable light situation the mostr annoying thing is that they have turned the light buisness to a goldmine cheatinmg people of their basic rights a street in odukpani LGA in calabar has not seen light for nearly three 3 months the residence are sick and tired of authorities telling them to pay for thjis and that and to add to the already painful wounds thay are giving bills of exorbitant funds to pay most people have resorted to the generator called " i pass my neighbour" but tjis has resulted in noise pollution death and many more tragedies in fact there is now a hopeless sense opf power in the country just recently in the papers the minister of power alleged that it will take an annual payment of 10 billion USD to save the sector for me thats just a big lie to diversify funds to their own bank accounts a trillion n aira has been looted from the sector has the culprits been caught answer is NO! they are still there waiting the problem to these is that people are ignorant and there is not enough privatization to save the sector if you consider the folowing things carefully you can understand what i am talking about:
1. there are over 150 million people broken into 6 geopolitical zones
2.there are over 778 local government areas and about twice the number of cities in Nigeria
3.there are only 3 national hydro power plants and 6 thermal plants to cater for us
4. there are millions of consumers of alternate power sources
with such statistics how do you think we can enjoy power there is no research on alternate power supply no government grants on state owned generating sets the so called national grid is just a hoax catering to a select few states leaving others with low generating sets the power plants are old, dilapidated and the equipments need overhauling the pasinful thing is that i wonder what the advisers and senate committees on power do they just seat down in fat bellies and taslk yet no action by now there should be innovation forums by tech engineers and electrical enginers to build plants and sustainable fuels and other alternate fuel types also companies to generate their own power and produce light for communities as a CSR mandate such issues can be addressed the government should start taking steps to address the problems we are having or else there will be a revolution look at the current state of today a little thing has caused a massive change in the middle east the thing that should be on the back of our leaders mind is that with out light economic production comes to a stand still if they can construct more power plants that can cater to each state and decentralize the grid then changes can be made how do you think the national grid can cater to the state of lagos crowned the 3rd most populous city in the world slowly becoming a mega metropolis the economy of this country and success of other sectors are linked closely to such a power sector
the next step is for us to start invention, analytical, research centers with a prime target on power first then other priorities this will create innovative forums for bright minds to share their ideas on power generation then technical workshops and design workshops by foreign power innovators to build models then lastly bring in major sponsors to help in light generation this will pave a way for us to become one of the top economies in the near future now we need to generate the consciousnesses needed and it starts with you at home remember we need to LIGHT UP NIGERIA.
Compiled by Ekundayo Temitope Babatunde a Geologist in the University of Port-Harcourt.send a mail to to4shizzle@yahoo.com for more information
Thank you!!!!.
1. there are over 150 million people broken into 6 geopolitical zones
2.there are over 778 local government areas and about twice the number of cities in Nigeria
3.there are only 3 national hydro power plants and 6 thermal plants to cater for us
4. there are millions of consumers of alternate power sources
with such statistics how do you think we can enjoy power there is no research on alternate power supply no government grants on state owned generating sets the so called national grid is just a hoax catering to a select few states leaving others with low generating sets the power plants are old, dilapidated and the equipments need overhauling the pasinful thing is that i wonder what the advisers and senate committees on power do they just seat down in fat bellies and taslk yet no action by now there should be innovation forums by tech engineers and electrical enginers to build plants and sustainable fuels and other alternate fuel types also companies to generate their own power and produce light for communities as a CSR mandate such issues can be addressed the government should start taking steps to address the problems we are having or else there will be a revolution look at the current state of today a little thing has caused a massive change in the middle east the thing that should be on the back of our leaders mind is that with out light economic production comes to a stand still if they can construct more power plants that can cater to each state and decentralize the grid then changes can be made how do you think the national grid can cater to the state of lagos crowned the 3rd most populous city in the world slowly becoming a mega metropolis the economy of this country and success of other sectors are linked closely to such a power sector
the next step is for us to start invention, analytical, research centers with a prime target on power first then other priorities this will create innovative forums for bright minds to share their ideas on power generation then technical workshops and design workshops by foreign power innovators to build models then lastly bring in major sponsors to help in light generation this will pave a way for us to become one of the top economies in the near future now we need to generate the consciousnesses needed and it starts with you at home remember we need to LIGHT UP NIGERIA.
Compiled by Ekundayo Temitope Babatunde a Geologist in the University of Port-Harcourt.send a mail to to4shizzle@yahoo.com for more information
Thank you!!!!.
