hero2000:


I doubt you read a quarter of the piece but here you are showing your dislike for intellectual reasoning. It is like a child who cries (or wails!) to mummy that he wants to eat and mummy says the gas just finished and that she would go and buy kerosene to complete the cooking. The little child most likely not understand that 'epistle'. All the child wants is food! Whether the mum has to cut his hand for him to eat he doesn't give a damn!
Many Nigerians are like that baby. The don't understand process. They think results are magic. Why won't they think like that? Some of them had their Final year Long Essay(project) written by 'consultants'. They have not yet developed the power of intellectual rigour to get things done. Hence they can't show empathy to anyone doing the same.
Fashola, to me, is a presidential material.

Mylove55:
na wa oo, ipod yoot are just too lazy to read, fashola said gej sold ipod power to two buyers, that is corruption, and d matter has be resolve, thanks to fashola

hero2000:


I doubt you read a quarter of the piece but here you are showing your dislike for intellectual reasoning. It is like a child who cries (or wails!) to mummy that he wants to eat and mummy says the gas just finished and that she would go and buy kerosene to complete the cooking. The little child most likely not understand that 'epistle'. All the child wants is food! Whether the mum has to cut his hand for him to eat he doesn't give a damn!

therealMcCain:


I love your analogy, before I stumbled on this piece, I had a falling out with someone on Twitter, asking him what has been dobe about power

He directed me to this piece, I then understood the enormity of the problems.

There is also a 2010 power roadmap, I will read that & out up my thoughts too(it's over 150pages),

Nigerians don't like the word process, they want quick fix.

As I stated earlier, even if they genco's generate 12,000MW how do you transmit it when our national grid can't take more than 5,000MW?

The national grid can't be upgraded within a year. Some industrial quipments take nothing less than 7months-1yr to procure & deliver

I just tire, my major grouse is the DISCO's that are ripping is off

bishopkay:


Sorry to ruffle your feathers but I doubt you could comprehend what I wrote there.
Over the years in my business dealings, I've a simple principle...put your mouth where your money is. Fashola said a serious government should be able to solve power problems in six months. He further boasted of what he did in Lagos and peeps like you applauded him.

Fast forward to over six months since getting the portfolio of the power ministry and we are even worse off than before he took over. Excuses, excuses and more excuses. Is he indirectly telling us the Buhari government isn't serious?

About you thinking Fashola is presidential material, that's your own opinion and you are entitled to it. I actually thought in that light too one certain time until he went about maintaining websites for 175 million naira.
Also for your information, I read more than QUARTER of the original post. #peace

hero2000:


I doubt you reside in Lagos.

But to the main issue, I agree with you that Fashola didn't understand the power sector and that was the reason he said all the things he said. But now that he understands he attempts to let Nigerians know the real situation of things and that these things take time. But is it not that because of your dislike for him you refuse to see the factual nature of the situation? I am glad you didn't contradict any of his facts. Whether you like Fashola or not facts are facts. Eg. TCN cannot yet transmit more than 5000MW but they are working on it. Thanks to NDA they work will take longer than it is planned.

hero2000:


I agree with you on the DISCO thing. Prepaid meters must be given to everyone to avoid the exploitation.

But our people too may start by-passing. Nevertheless, it is the responsibility of DISCO to device a technique to identify by-passers.

Firefire:
Story for the gods.


Minister of Darkness and Rocket Science, give Nigerians stable power or resign to enjoy your loots...

Over hyped element.

KINGwax007:
tell us what ur dad achieved for his community

jpphilips:
Mr Fashola, the biggest mistake you made in the power sector is increasing tariff without mandating the power companies to provide meters.
That incompetence will prove in the end you have no idea how the power game is played. How can you a Fashola not have public complaints units for all the zones as a regulator in such a sensitive ministry and you say you are doing things differently, Nnaji had more results in a shorter time with less stories, better bring him back and hold on to works ministry alone, power is just not your calling as it totally belongs to God

harveyspec:


there are customer complaints in each zone, there are NERC forums in most states, if not all

the issue is nothing seems to be working!

you make complaints at the disco office, you are supposed to escalate to NERC, if not resolved satisfactorily

you go through all of this & yet nothing is done about your complaints.

there are wonderful rights of the consumer on paper, on ground, it's a far cry

has NERC been bought over by the DISCO's?

Firefire:


Mynd44, Lalasticlala, can you please do justice ? Violation of Rule - 2.

Thank you.

jpphilips:



Can you guess know how electricity supply will change if Fashola reforms just NERC and metering alone? the problem I have with clowns like Fashola is that they seem to be in the same party with the president but they have no idea how Buhari thinks, when Buhari was telling us about change, we all knew his idea of change is pursuing thieves, he is actually relying on numbskulls like fashola to bring about their technocrat experience for the "other change" oblivious that Fashola himself has no clue.
PHED can not spend 100k to fix anything in any transformer in my neighborhood, we have to contribute for everything, yet Fashola had the temerity to grant them new tariff without providing meters.
they extort you through estimated billing and allow your sub station to decay because they have absolutely nothing to lose,
How is it difficult to give everyone a meter? if you don't fix the damn transformer, you will have no revenue, that way you will understand that the reason most places are in darkness is because the power companies have nothing to lose.
the thunder that will Fire Fashola is still on road walk!!