“Let there be light”
It was in my Junior (third year) at the university, in
the USA, when I undertook a study titled
COMPARATIVE RELIGION, when the discovery was
made. Until then I was under the mistaken
impression that there were two religions in the
world – Christianity and Islam. But, very soon,
after arriving in the US in 1964, armed with an
American Government Scholarship, a third religion
was added to the list – Judaism.
But, it was not until 1966 that the revelation came
through this course that there are more than 1000
religions worldwide. Among the most common
beliefs of virtually all religions in the idea that God/
Allah/Yahweh etc ordered light to be created as a
pre-condition to other acts of creation and
development.
Granted our nation faces several problems calling
for urgent attention – mostly Boko Haram and
general insecurity, corruption, unacceptably high
unemployment, equitable distribution of the
dividends of democracy, infrastructure, education,
health, etc – but, one item on the national agenda
which will speed up progress on the rest is POWER
SUPPLY.
Supply has been emphasized because, the
outgoing governments and its Ministers of Power,
as well as praise-singers, had wasted their time
and money during the campaigns pointing to
increased generating capacity.
What they failed to understand, or, more likely
deliberately ignored is the matter of distribution;
meaning supply to homes. Let me illustrate what is
meant by this from my days as a Marketing/Sales
executive. Most brands fail because the brand
owners fail to bring the product close enough to
the consumer. Infant milk is an example.
Every nursing mother knows that when you have a
baby yelling for food at two in the morning, the
baby milk in a store, miles away, is a distinctly
different product from the one in the refrigerator.
Jonathan’s Ministers, who became jesters with
their failed promises on power supply had
concentrated on production without taking
corresponding steps to ensure that the power
reaches consumers. Till today, the daily power
supply to Nigeria is under 4000MW, irrespective of
what the production capacity is. That level of
power output cannot get us anywhere.
It is remarkable that the best Nigeria had been able
to do was achieved in December 2012, when we
attended 4517MW of power supplied. That was two
years and three months ago. That feat, hardly
worthy of a nation destined for greatness, had not
been equaled since. The most obvious question is:
what had the government been doing in twenty
seven months if it could not, at least, maintain that
level?
Worse still, if in two years, the nation had actually
lost ground, when are we ever going to progress?
Clearly, no progress had been made in twenty
seven months if today we cannot receive 4517MW
steady supply. More to the point; how could the
outgoing President, knowing the lack of progress
in power SUPPLIED have kept the Minister who had
failed him and the nation so woefully? And, how
could the out-going President tell Nigerians that
he had fulfilled his campaign promises?
Were we promised that there would be no progress
on power supply in twenty seven months, while
officials earned their huge emoluments? When was
such a promise made to us? President-elect
Buhari must recognize that there will be no
significant progress on all fronts until there is
substantial increase in power supply. To this he
must address himself urgently.
Unfortunately, that will require going and digging
up a lot of dirt buried by his predecessors. Several
contractors are still seating on our funds for
contracts not fully executed ot even totally
abandoned. It would amount to monumental folly
to go around seeking for loans to undertake the
task on hand when Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and
Jonathan had drawn down billions of dollars to
increase our capacity to 10,000MW without doing
it.
Articles which will follow will detail the list of
known contracts which are yet to yield results.
Something must happen. The contractors must
either complete the jobs or refund our money. All
economies, even from primitive times, have always
run on energy; the more a nation can generate the
faster it can transform the resources at its disposal
to benefits for its people.
We lag behind because we are currently failing to
generate the power to make rapid progress. Buhari
can change a lot of things simply by altering the
power supply situation as fast as possible. Once
he gets that underway, he can start chasing the
crooks who stole our funds. Even there, he would
need to fast track. There is already sufficient
information in the public domain fro him to start
with – before going into the secret official files
which will reveal more information. He will receive
all the help he needs from me – whether he asks
for it or not.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/buhari-let-there-be-light-power-first/

Thank you ooooooooh!
The old mumu nor even get any beta agenda!
Like Ribadunce, na for darkness e wan fight "KWAROSHIN"?

24hrs power is not done overnight,we are talking of nothing less than 70,000MW. If he can achieve 30,000mw in four years,he should be the best president Nigeria ever produced.

Stable power supply and GMB til wheneva he wishes. Lol

Shld incase

Medley:
24hrs power is not done overnight

.. Yes supply more abeg baba

Buhari shey u don hear

We are not even asking for 24hrs supply, if we can be sure of 8 hrs everyday we would be very grateful Buhari.

Definitely they are up to the task of fixing the epileptic power supply in the country.I trust BUHARI to hit the ground running.NG,he go better

looking forward to seeing the change we are all yelling for.. I pray God help him

GEJ's government has already done what needs to be achieved for steady power to be supplied.

I seriously doubt if there's anything Buhari can do on generation and distribution.

The only thing he can work on is transmission and securing the gas pipelines.

GEJ has taken care of the rest.

Medley:
24hrs power is not done overnight

hmmm since it is not done over night why do u demand such from gej that will be gmb first sign of failure and we expect him to make #1 to $1 reduce fuel price to #40 boost the economy with 48/barrel pay salary with 48/barrel create more employment with it secure the country cos other forms of insecurity will arise he must clear boko haram first o before touching others o if not na ethnic cleansening we go accuse am of if he succeed in stopping boko he will be accused of sponsoring them if he did not then why he come commot gej wey manage hold them for one corner of country cos them go escalate wen he come in na thier plan and many other etc's apc and gmb raised the stake so high now na to perform without excuse o and given that nigerians are very impatient we wont wait beyond 31 dec to see the changes as for me and my family Gej is our president till 2019 i dont acknowledge gmb as president o

One agenda! Just Light! Power I mean...

If there is stable power supply, I'll continue to sai BUHARI till hin Go die

Medley:
24hrs power is not done overnight,we are talking of nothing less than 70,000MW. If he can achieve 30,000mw in four years,he should be the best president Nigeria ever produced.

Our expectations are just too high, it will be the voice that will silence the achievement of GMB in four years.

Generating steady electricity is not rocket science, the will has not just been there because of some interests being protected.

Medley:
24hrs power is not done overnight,we are talking of nothing less than 70,000MW. If he can achieve 30,000mw in four years,he should be the best president Nigeria ever produced.

let him start up something... who told u 70,000 mgw cannot be achieved in 4 years?

even if he adds just 5000mw to join the 4000 to make 9000mw out of the 15000 demand it will be a reasonable step in right direction
personally i would abandon othe sectors and go for broke and try to add 10 to 15000 mw once and for all

buskie13:
let him start up something... who told u 70,000 mgw cannot be achieved in 4 years?

how long would d feasiblity studies of various site take? How long will d shipment of plants and machinery take,how long will the gas supply plant construction take? How will d funding go?


Bro. Power is not like planting palm oil plantation,you get it?

Medley:


how long would d feasiblity studies of various site take? How long will d shipment of plants and machinery take,how long will the gas supply plant construction take? How will d funding go?


Bro. Power is not like planting palm oil plantation,you get it?

more importantly wher will h get the 70billion dollars to pay for it9oyel is now 48$ per barrel