cecegorz:

Whatever high cost we might end up paying, i'll prefer to do it and get stable supply, instead of paying and getting nothing! And still end up running generator every day.

All Current Electricity workers that are opposed to this idea should be sent to the black hole to continue their wretched existence there

Ibo Man:

Let them privatise.
The fraud , the corruption and inefficiency will be curbed once and for all.
All who know there onions have nothing to fear.
It will be more expensive for the end user if the prospective investor should go into running their
own power lines from street to street. That is the major difference between sale of nitel and PHCN.
GSM has nothing to do with cables unlike PHCN. Power lines and Cables are everything in PHCN

4llerbuntu:

i dont know why those Godforsaken people in PHCN just want to resist change and progress.

the one thing you can guarantee is that NEVER, UNDER THEIR WATCH, will this country ever have stable power, yet these enemies of progress are resisting the sale of the worn down, inadequate assets of that oppobrious entity called phcn.

what are they even scared of sef, if they were actually any good and competent, one would think that they should spearhead the change, but no. alas, once the thing is sold, it will no longer be business as usual for them. vermin


like they now want us to believe that they simply love nigeria more than the long suffering nigerians. this self same scenario played out with Nitel, thank God for the deregulation of that sector, where is the same Nitel today? i remember when being a nitel staff was a post almost equivalent to God.


the days are coming when the ladder carrying, power switch pushing mongrels called Phcn staff will also become nonentities. people of darkness, whom have chosen to ever dwell in darkness, onyeoshi

Beaf:

The soldiers are there to stop any saboteurs within PHCN from marooning or selling vital equipment as they have done in the past.
The generator mafia and the cabal are the last groups to be defeated (fuel mafia has gone 6 feet below) and they must be defeated.
Privatisation is the only way forward and until that is achieved, PHCN installations must be kept under guard from paid up vandals.

petaling:

The same is so in transmission and distribution, the workers are doing their best to work with obsolete systems to bring the little that is generated to homes. Let us appreciate the hazard PHCN workers contend with, on the average they lose one staff to electrocution and explosion on weekly basis, this never made headlines, but they still sacrifice their lives to serve their fatherland.

cecegorz:

We are not interested in their matyredom that brews complete darkness over the nation,( sounds so much like NITEL workers chant prior to 2001). That's the more reason they should go back to their villages and live happily ever after in the huts.

the points are quite noted but not acceptable for keeping a bad system.

In the beginning, Nigeria government built power stations, power lines, distribution lines, transmission lines and all what have you in the today PHCN.

From the days of ECN to NEPA and PHCN, we have all witnessed the rot and fall in the ability and capacity to provide electric power. Yes, the fault lies with federal government. Successive administrations failed to maintain, upgrade, expand and sustain reliable and stable power supply as the technology changes and population/economy grow.

Now the same federal government who in the past allowed the rot and caused the decline have come pot with the option of selling the power business to those who will not allow the rot and disintegration. You people are now coming up with issues that are have no bearing to solving our power problems.

The workers since the days of ECN have been the parasites eating away at the system and growing fat on the carelessness of the owners. Yes, many of the workers have been ingenious in solving some technical problems and have had to die in the process of working in an inconducive environment created by unserious owners.

Is it not a good thing that the workers will have a better life working under new owners who will be more serious and not allow the system to collapse. There is no way those among the present PHCN workers who are technically competent will not command respectable positions in the new arrangement.

The NITEL staff of old are all over calling the shots in various positions in the new telecom industry. Yes, new investors should build their own power stations and not buy over PHCN, but the truth is POWER is not wireless like TELECOM. If NITEL had been wise they would have made a lot of money from cell site co-location since the inception of GSM.

No telecom operator, would have been ready to build sites accross Nigeria landscape if all the towers were to be wire-linked like in the case of power masts. Glo would have rather spent their whole money buying NITEL if they would need to connect each subscriber to their network through cables. So there is no basis of comparison in the technology of POWER and TELECOM.

The only way to go is to unbundle PHCN the way it has been done and sell off to those who have the fund, technology, technical competence and corporate governance to run the succeeding power companies along profit lines.

Enough of sentiments that killed off NITEL and would eventually kill off PHCN.

Power is the most profitable business in the world, greater than telecom. When we get it right many people would drop some of their extra phone lines to pay for power. There is nothing you can do without power. There is no fun without power.

PLEASE LET THERE BE LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!