ocelot2006:


So, when was the NIPP project initiated? Sincere Nigerian is right on this one. Obj may have initiated the project, but 8 solid years was more than enough period for his administration to achieve something tangible.

Sincere 9gerian: All these infrastructure being built here and there should be secured because the HATERS and PAY-AS-YOU-GO critics, both fearing lose of relevance and source of income, can sponsor or personally vandalize those infrastructure.

That is the COMPLEXITY of Nigeria. The govt does not only spend money in building infrastructures, it also has to spend money in PROTECTING these infrastructures from the devils in the society.

Demdem: To those who delight in distorting facts. U can also read this to understand the careful planning of the OBJ's admin on power plants location.

gbadexy:
He stated that with the completion of all
the gas turbine projects, the NIPP
capacity would hit 4,264MW by the end of
2013, adding that there would be follow
up on the outstanding combined cycle for
Alaoji (510MW) this year.



I though the power generation has reached 4300 MW before, which one is this at the end of a whole year again(2013).

Sincere 9gerian: What could be more hypocritical than the same mischief makers, who accuse GEJ of not doing much in his less than 2yrs tenure now expecting us to shower praises on OBJ for bequeting us with uncompleted projects after 8 SOLID years at the helm of affairs. At the moment, there are more than 17,000 abandoned/uncompleted federal govt projects, littered nationwide. How come we have this much abandoned projects, considering the fact that many of our past leaders had ENOUGH TIME to conceive, commence and complete projects. OBJ had 8 SOLID and STABLE years to perform. Abacha had about 5yrs to make an impact. IBB had 8 SOLID and fairly STABLE years to do whatever he wanted. How come the over 17,000 abandoned and uncompleted projects?
To add insult to injury some persons expect us to sing praises of OBJ for bequeting us with his own set of abandoned and uncompleted projects, after 8yrs in power? SMH!
Supposing the president that took over from OBJ didn't believe in the project or didn't give it the seriousness it deserves, then the projects may have been left to rot away after billions of dollars have been expended.
We should also give the credit for the ongoing construction of Lagos metro line to Jakande, who conceived the idea, did the feasibility studies and reached financial closure on the project and would have completed the project in the mid 80's if he were not sacked by Buhari and his gang

Tusky44:


Keep deluding your sorry self. You actually think critics are sadists and are looking for opportunities to destroy FG infrastructure. I support GEJ but not by attacking his critics, not cos i believe he is a competent man, but cos i want him to spite the SW & North. Basically, i support him dubiously cos that way i can get his opponents put him under immense pressure to either man up or convoke a SNC for the inevitable dissolution of Nigeria.

Arogba: SCAMMMMM! The site of this power plant is located within 2km of Ajaokuta steel company, This project was initiated and completed by the Obj administration. The only problem with the plant was gas supply because the existing gas pipeline supplying Ajaokuta steel company was also meant to supply the power plant but after the completion of the project it was discovered that the pipeline had been vandalized since the steel company itself has never really worked.

Sincere 9gerian: What could be more hypocritical than the same mischief makers, who accuse GEJ of not doing much in his less than 2yrs tenure now expecting us to shower praises on OBJ for bequeting us with uncompleted projects after 8 SOLID years at the helm of affairs. At the moment, there are more than 17,000 abandoned/uncompleted federal govt projects, littered nationwide. How come we have this much abandoned projects, considering the fact that many of our past leaders had ENOUGH TIME to conceive, commence and complete projects. OBJ had 8 SOLID and STABLE years to perform. Abacha had about 5yrs to make an impact. IBB had 8 SOLID and fairly STABLE years to do whatever he wanted. How come the over 17,000 abandoned and uncompleted projects?
To add insult to injury some persons expect us to sing praises of OBJ for bequeting us with his own set of abandoned and uncompleted projects, after 8yrs in power? SMH!
Supposing the president that took over from OBJ didn't believe in the project or didn't give it the seriousness it deserves, then the projects may have been left to rot away after billions of dollars have been expended.
We should also give the credit for the ongoing construction of Lagos metro line to Jakande, who conceived the idea, did the feasibility studies and reached financial closure on the project and would have completed the project in the mid 80's if he were not sacked by Buhari and his gang

Arogba: SCAMMMMM! The site of this power plant is located within 2km of Ajaokuta steel company, This project was initiated and completed by the Obj administration. The only problem with the plant was gas supply because the existing gas pipeline supplying Ajaokuta steel company was also meant to supply the power plant but after the completion of the project it was discovered that the pipeline had been vandalized since the steel company itself has never really worked.

The nation has been bedeviled more with mega-excuses rather than the promised megawatts; why?

Thank you for this opportunity to talk about what we are doing. I didn’t realise that we have been offering so many excuses. I thought we were telling you what the situation is. I have been minister for ten months. Prior to that I was adviser to the president on power and when we came, what we saw was an absolute mess of the power sector. We met 2,800MW of power delivered to the grid; a lot of the power plants were never really in order and got epileptic maintenance that naturally produced epileptic power supply. Ideally, a power plant should be maintained on schedule and if you don’t do that, you run the risk of running down the plant. So we had a lot of power plants that did not produce up to 50 per cent of their installed capacities; that is the sort of thing we met. The national grid was also weak, which means if something happened on the grid, you ran the risk of cutting off a whole region. In addition, there was no plan for gas supply to the thermal power stations, so we had plants that were being built without gas availability or a proper plan; the distribution plan was also in disarray, such that we could have a power plant without actually getting the electricity to where it could be used. Unfortunately, those in the sector know that power production and delivery are not like building roads and some other facilities. If you are building a road, you can build 50 per cent of it and put it to use, but for power, 99.9 per cent will not be sufficient; you have to have 100 per cent completion to fire it to work. Secondly, it takes time to build a power plant, no matter what anybody tells you, you do not buy power turbines off the shelf. If we had started when we came in here to build any power plant, we would not have completed it by now, no matter the miracle.

Demdem: Again, i salute the OBJ admin for initiating and commencing this project
Secondly, kudos to the retardeen for sustaining it.
However, am concerned that we dont have sufficient transmission capability to adequately evacuate the very little MWs we are presently generating which is very important as it will determine if Nigerians have power supply in their homes or not.
This is where i expect the retardeen to focus more on.

2) The Geregu plant was located (BY OBJ) less than eight kilometres from the existing Pipeline that takes gas to the Ajaokuta Steel plant.

Jeboy: My very good question to you guyz doing like good historians is why do u curse dis man for problems he inherited from past predecessors which he hasn't proferred solution for but u think its wrong to give him credit for the reverse?



Simple Answer: Badbelleism

Demdem: Again, i salute the OBJ admin for initiating and commencing this project
Secondly, kudos to the retardeen for sustaining it.
However, am concerned that we dont have sufficient transmission capability to adequately evacuate the very little MWs we are presently generating which is very important as it will determine if Nigerians have power supply in their homes or not.
This is where i expect the retardeen to focus more on.

duality: I still don't understand this. I know Geregu to have an installed capacity of 414 mw.(gt1, gt 2 and gt3) although geregu operates as an island, it has its own challenges hence, it has never worked at installed capacity nor was it connected to the grid. however a phase 2 of the project was proposed.

now has the problems of phase 1 been fixed?

is geregu now connected to the national grid?

how did they come about 434mw.

jp philips:

Thank you for recognizing that NIPP was OBJ's brain child and he is the reason we are close to having steady electricity.
during my tour of the NIPP i knew this day will come, not long ago, i visited yaba left to send relief materials to the inmates, i ran into a desperate man called Gen Buhari.
he told me that OBJ embezzled all the NIPP funds without a single block on the ground. all efforts to convince him otherwise with proofs of the ones ive seen myself proved abortive.

excerpts our discussion.


[url]https://www.nairaland.com/1134045/obasanjo-cant-stop-criticizing-jonathan/6 [/url]

Genbuhari is a nutcase no doubt.
Only the very foolish will say otherwise as regards NIPP. Infact its interesting to note that this Geregu plant in question has since been commisioned by OBJ as far back as 2007. Availability of gas has always been one of the main challenge.

jmaine:

Bros, read the article again slowly and gain indepth understanding . . . .he was simply referring to the current on stream NIPP's generating capacities and not the entire power generating stations

Egbin thermal plant which generates the highest can't be categorized as an NIPP project neither can the Kainji dam power generating plant be designated as same.. . .



Buntu baba . .by your understanding, we are generating 1,687MW since the NIPP projects peaked on that value . . .

jp philips: [color=#000099]@ GEN BUHARI

i don't like people who read articles written by thieves to bamboozle the public on Non performing governments.

I asked you to list power plants that has been completed by Jonathan's administration and you wrote a press release.

in case you failed WAEC, i am a very precise person, if i ask questions, give answers, to give you a head's up, here are a list of Nigeria's thermal and hydro plants that benefited from the NIPP either through upgrade or construction from scratch and tell me whose brain child it is.

that reminds me, Elumelu investigated the NIPP and told gullible Nigerians like you that the money was embezzled without anything on ground abi?? later the contractors accused him of collecting bribe from them, he was later indicted and disgraced. such are the press release Gen buhari is showing me.

Gen Buhari, tell me where these power plants came from and year of commissioning


AES barge located at Egbin generates 270mw completed in 2001, project lasted 3yrs...whose brain child was it? your father?

AFAM iv to v, of course afam 1 to 4 was commissioned in 1976 but no longer operational, another 4 to 5 was constructed at a capacity of 350mw, in 2002 a new afam of 726mw appeared in 2002. whose brain child was it?? your father??

ALAOJI power station in AbA, still under construction,expected to be upstream 2014, project start date 2006, whose brain child?? your father

CALABAR Power station

generates 6.6mw commisssioned in 2006, it includes 3 turbines, whose brain child?? your father

EGBEMA power plant

expected to deliver 336mw by end of 2013, project start date, august 2005, whose brain child?? your father??

EGBIN Power plant

Egbin Thermal Power Station Egbin Gas-fired steam turbine 1320 MW Operational 1985-1986 Has six 220-MW independent units.Egbin - Thermal Power Station in Egbin, final upgrade feb. 2007,

whose brain child?

IBOM power plant in Ikot abasi, commissioned in 2009, project start date, august 2005. whose brain child?? FGN/Akwaibom state govt.

ihovbor power station benin city

under construction, expected to deliver 450mw of electricity by 2013, project start date; 2006. whose brain child?? your father??


okpai power station: produces 480mw of electricity, commissioned in 2005, whose brain child??

olorunsogo power plant: produces 336mw of electricity, commissioned in 2007, whose brain child

Olorunsogo 2 power plant, expected to deliver a whooping 750mw, will be fully operational in dec. 2012 project start date;
may, 2006 whose brain child

Omoku power plant, delivers 150mw built and commissioned in 2005 by rockson engineering, whose brain child??


Sapele power station:

began operation in 1978 first upgrade commissioned in 1981, generating 225mw, final upgrade, started in 2007, expected to deliver a whooping 450mw by 2012, whose brain child was the upgrade your father

GEREGU power plant: delivers 414mw commissioned in 2007, whose brain child?? your father??

Omotosho power plant: fires 335MW of electricity, commissioned November 2006


oloronshogo: operated by Nigeria and Chinese government fires another 335MW in ogun state, completed 2009, project start date may 2005, whose brain child your father??


ughelli power plant:

commissioned in 1966, produces 60mw, upgraded to 360mw in 2012,upgrade start date 2008, whose brain child? YARADUA


KANO power station:

expected to deliver 100mw by 2015, project start date, FEB 2012 whose brain child?? JONATHAN

Zamfara, kiri, 100mw and 50mw respectively, due date; 2012 and 2016 brain child: JONATHAN.

Now with this facts on the ground, most of them i have visited myself, no si!!y press can tell me that obasanjo embezzled the NIPP projects.

if you think otherwise, kindly tell us where all these plants came from.

@ Gen Buhari

i ask you again, tell me one single power plant started by Jonathan from scratch and commissioned, just one, he was close to commissioning the Zamfara 100mw but since NNaji left, nothing is going on there.

please don't give me si!!y press release of these projects, i have the addresses of the ones i have visited during a tour of NIPP projects.

i will paste it later so you can go touch it your self. now, answer my questions.

obasanjo as a corrupt person may have inflated the said contracts and did some shaddy deals no doubt but OBJ is the reason Nigeria is close to having steady electricity.

tunalism: GEJ has really done an onerous nd breathtaking jobs when it comes to the power sector transformation agenda. I said this becos I have seen improvements in my area since the past one mnth. So, let's give it up to the man. More power to
your elbowGEJ has really done an onerous nd breathtaking jobs when it comes to the power sector transformation agenda. I said this becos I have seen improvements in my area since the past one mnth. So, let's give it up to the man. More power to
your elbowGEJ has really done an onerous nd breathtaking jobs when it comes to the power sector transformation agenda. I said this becos I have seen improvements in my area since the past one mnth. So, let's give it up to the man. More power to
your elbow

jmaine:

What was Yar Adua probing in the power sector and what was his main reason for stalling an on going project of this magnitude for years before his demise . . . .

Ans needed from folks like you . . . .

Demdem:

OBJ wasted time before he commenced work on NIPP. he unfortunately had other priorities. The NIPP didnt commence until 2003 and not 1999 when he became President. so its wrong for peeps to give an impression that OBJ sat on NIPP for 8yrs. thats simply not true.
Kindly read the below.

http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/papers/fs04g/fs04g_ehiorobo_4258.pdf

jmaine: People feel it's wisdom for Obj to have built power plants without cogent provisions and plans for gas supply needed to power them ..na talk be that ?

The other guy (GEJ) comes in, and rectifies that major flaw and yet peeps feel he doesn't deserve a mention . . .

No one can rob GEJ efforts in ensuring the NIPPs fire on as expected



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nnaji-we-are-implementing-key-pillars-of-power-reform/117760/

^^

Prof Barth Nnaji speaking . . . . .

jmaine: People feel it's wisdom for Obj to have built power plants without cogent provisions and plans for gas supply needed to power them ..na talk be that ?

The other guy (GEJ) comes in, and rectifies that major flaw and yet peeps feel he doesn't deserve a mention . . .

No one can rob GEJ efforts in ensuring the NIPPs fire on as expected



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nnaji-we-are-implementing-key-pillars-of-power-reform/117760/

^^

Prof Barth Nnaji speaking . . . . .

jp philips:

yaradua saw a massive corruption in the scheme but not unreluctant to fund it, he just wanted a clearer picture and know where he will tie his interests as new head of state since OBJ has left.

at the time, the elumelu panel was constituted and elumelu went to the site, saw work in progress (though not without challenges)but demanded for bribe from the contractors, when they refused, he released a report claiming that nothing was on ground. Yaradua then halted the scheme temporarily.

the Contractors fought back by releasing their different challenges which another committee was set up to address them, towards the demise of yaradua, the projects kicked off again.

Take for example, when elumelu got to one of those sites, the base structures have all been done but the turbine couldn't be installed cos the reinforcement on a cross bridge could not support the weight of both the turbine and flat beds,as calculated by the structural engineers hired by the contractor.

faced with that, the contractor applied for a contract variation to accommodate the structural reinforcement of the bridge so the turbine can pass of course, that wasn't part of their initial contract.

the contractor pleaded with him to personally take him with his entourage across the river to see the turbine which he declined on safety grounds.

he went ahead in the report to claim that the contractor has squandered the money given to him to purchase the turbine, meanwhile the turbine was already in Nigeria.

the customs didn't help matters at the time, there was a time a lot of refinery accessories and NIPP equipments imported in the country were confiscated and Auctioned by the customs, the reason behind that and whether the FG was aware remains unclear till date.

funding; some of the contractors were owed for a long period and most of their project assets were confiscated by banks in a bid to recover their money.

i believe that a cumulative of all those challenges has poised yaradua to stall the projects at the time.

jp philips:



i don't know if you are from Zimbabwe, Geregu power plant that i know was commissioned in 2007, it fired for a while and stopped due to gas challenges, in 2007 was the year obasanjo left office, he didn't even have the time to fix the problem,
then came yaradua who elumelu deceived that the scheme was a scam because he was looking for kick backs, yaradua eventually stalled the scheme.

prof bart Nnaji did a quick review and saw the strategic relevance of the project and advised Jonathan to revisit which he obliged,

today, the gas issue has been solved and turbine one has come on stream remaining turbine 2 to 4 (meaning that jonathan did not add anything to what obasanjo left in 2007)

let us be guided accordingly, the project has been commissioned since 2007, if i am to praise the actors,
should i praise the man who thought about it, funded, constructed and commissioned it

OR


the man who addressed a challenge in his work, who should take the credit, gentlemen, Jonathan is doing a great dis service to this nation, believe me, if NNaji had continued, He could have come up with a grand plan that will glorify the Jonathan's administration in the power sector.

Olaolufred:

While it is good to note that GEJ is on track based on the developments in power sector,
It does not also erase the fact that OBJ Initiated it, and worked more on the construction and installation of those power stations.
Now that Goodluck through Barth Nnaji discovered some planning errors, The common sense is to rectify it.
That is the essence of a visional govt.

I will commend them for the progress so far(though they could do better)
But I will not thank them for doing what they are paid to do.

jp philips:



[color=#990000]point of correction, there has been power spending from 1999 however, the NIPP was inaugurated in 2003. most of the projects that were funded before the NIPP are equally referred to as NIPP projects an example is

the AES barge project in egbin which was completed in 2001,firing about 270mw, funding was released around 99 or so, but today we include AES as part of the NIPP, this is so because the NIPP master plan not only covered generation plants but also distribution and upgrade for existing ones.
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