ElSherriff:
Eya, so you took the bait?
If actually they are helping Nigeria through ensuring our dams do not overflow, how come they still have to pay for our electricity?
Basic rule of life, do not give what you do not have!
Since I am your father's mate, it is safe to say, your father, all his brothers are stupid. You? you just dont exist.

ElSherriff:
Young man, you and Fashola make zero sense at all. If we pay for the infrastructure, we could as well pay for the maintenance of the Dam. You seem to think these things need rocket science to do. Whatever the togolese and benenoise have done to help channel water out of the dam or to keep it flowing, we have the capacity to do a 100 times over, so we can enjoy out total output, Instead of selling our generated output to them. It is not as if we are over serviced. simple logic, we sell to make money whereas we are starved.
If I need to tell Fashola or any government official what to do to make things work, then they do not deserve to be in government. if you choose to believe their craap then you are not ready for development.
Again, I am disappointed in Fashola. I can give him a full dossier of alternatives. But then, he is the minister, I am only a citizen.

Ehiscotch:
You also need to read this:

Niger river has an elevation in Niger and Benin
Republic, geographically ok for them to construct
the dam, if we allowed that, we wont have anything
and Niger wont give us anything either.
I think Egypt and Ethiopia has a similar agreement
on the Nile river. What do you know?
Block head calling himself an elder.

Ehiscotch:

Fortunately, you are not minister. Trying to renegotiate something like this is crass stupidity.
This is not your everyday Nigerian politics where the person that generates calls the other a parasite for benefitting from blah blah blah....
If they block the dam and prevent water from flowing who would be the BIGGER LOSER?
Your country poor power generation cannot be boosted solely by Kanji Dam.

ElSherriff:
Fashola we trusted you, now you are spewing this nonsense? Which dam? ehn? stop selling to them, when they overflow the dam, sanction them. sell something else not what you do not have in abundance.

mars123:
how much MW are we generating? It isn't enough for you and I but our government is willing to share to other countries for money? This is not how countries that want to advance behave. It is laxity to agree to such demand.

No wonder Nigerians are suffering. We have a very poor thinking government. A government that doesn't care for its people. Do you think if Aso rock depended on that current its giving out, it will continue to give it out? But because its Nigerians that need it right?

Ehiscotch:

ElSherriff: :
Fashola we trusted you, now you are spewing this nonsense? Which dam? ehn? stop selling to them, when they overflow the dam, sanction them. sell something else not what you do not have in abundance.

I can see you are dam' stupid [pun intended].
Kanji dam generates a good percentage of our electricity. Stop selling to them and you've got no electricity at all, then you start depending on gas, whose pipelines are exposed, vulnerable to vandalism.

Sanction who? On top their own river?
It is a win-win situation for all parties.

juman:
It make sense.

But this government is doing badly on stabilizing electricity here in nigeria.
New ideas are needed.

Ehiscotch:

I can see you are dam' stupid [pun intended].
Kanji dam generates a good percentage of our electricity. Stop selling to them and you've got no electricity at all, then you start depending on gas, whose pipelines are exposed, vulnerable to vandalism.

Sanction who? On top their own river?
It is a win-win situation for all parties.

NoToPile:
Lots of ignorant folks on this thread.

Everybody knows the reason why we sell electricity to those countries. Its not an agreement that was signed yesterday or even five years ago, its been like that for quite a while.

If those countries dam the water nothing is going to flow to naija and that's why the agreement was made in the first place.

People need to read oo.

ElSherriff:
Eya, so you took the bait?
If actually they are helping Nigeria through ensuring our dams do not overflow, how come they still have to pay for our electricity?
Basic rule of life, do not give what you do not have!
Since I am your father's mate, it is safe to say, your father, all his brothers are stupid. You? you just dont exist.

NoToPile:
Lots of ignorant folks on this thread.

Everybody knows the reason why we sell electricity to those countries. Its not an agreement that was signed yesterday or even five years ago, its been like that for quite a while.

If those countries dam the water nothing is going to flow to naija and that's why the agreement was made in the first place.

People need to read oo.

jieta:
oga Ehiscotch, may be you should read this suggestion. we should renegotiate or offer something meaningful in return instead of electricity.

Adek15:
exactly..
Oga ehiscotch, since kainji dam can't give us all what we need, any other alternative? Like osun river...

What of coal and gas? Do you think it's feasible?

ElSherriff:
Fashola we trusted you, now you are spewing this nonsense? Which dam? ehn? stop selling to them, when they overflow the dam, sanction them. sell something else not what you do not have in abundance.

ElSherriff:
Young man, you and Fashola make zero sense at all. If we pay for the infrastructure, we could as well pay for the maintenance of the Dam. You seem to think these things need rocket science to do. Whatever the togolese and benenoise have done to help channel water out of the dam or to keep it flowing, we have the capacity to do a 100 times over, so we can enjoy out total output, Instead of selling our generated output to them. It is not as if we are over serviced. simple logic, we sell to make money whereas we are starved.
If I need to tell Fashola or any government official what to do to make things work, then they do not deserve to be in government. if you choose to believe their craap then you are not ready for development.
Again, I am disappointed in Fashola. I can give him a full dossier of alternatives. But then, he is the minister, I am only a citizen.

jieta:
just look at your self, does your statement make sense to you? how can you sell what you need.

Idango:
This thing did not begin now during Fashola's tenor. He is just explaining to you. This has been the arrangement for long. And that is how it is possible to keep using the kaini dam. If you think you can do it better, maybe when you become a minister you can change the agreement with Niger and Benin.

Nigeria and Republic of Niger reach power supply agreement
Aug 06, 2001 02:00 AM
Nigeria and the Republic of Niger have reached a fresh agreement that will guarantee uninterrupted power supply to Niger and also guarantee uninterrupted flow of water from Niger to Nigeria's strategic hydro electric power station at Kainji in the central Nigeria's state of Niger. The accord reached after top level discussions between Nigerian Minister of Power and Steel Olusegun Agagu and his Niger's counterpart Yahaya Baare of Mines Ministry in the capital Abuja.
Officials at the Nigerian Ministry of Power and the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) disclosed that the arrangement between the two countries will ensure that 45 MW of electricity is guaranteed to Niger. "The amount of electricity to be supplied is just about 1 % of the estimated 4,000 MW to be generated by NEPA at the end of the year. By supplying the country with this, we will also guarantee that they will not dam the River Niger and as such throw Kainji out of action," a NEPA senior official was quoted as saying.

http://www.gasandoil.com/news/africa/ba1cc5c5e0462770fcaabd00baca2eed

Lighthouseman:

no one has right to block even a stream that passes through. blocking it means you are denying people downstream of their source of livelihoods and it could be termed genocide.
imagine someone blocking your way to your office where u make ur livelihood... what would u result to.
It's called riparian rights ... Both the tributor and tributee have right to the water resources including electricity. imagine if nigeria blocked the niger from flowing into the Atlantic ocean what would happen to these countries? They would become rivers and not countries and if it burst... nigeria becomes a river too. It's a win win situation.

Mcreloaded:

No wonder Nigerians are suffering. We have a very poor thinking government. A government that doesn't care for its people. Do you think if Aso rock depended on that current its giving out, it will continue to give it out? But because its Nigerians that need it right?

Hey listen if Benin or Niger should decide to dam their own part of the five to generate their own electricity then kainji dam will cease to exist as it won't have enough water to turn the turbines generation electricity yo Nigerians.
So in other words they are doing Nigeria a favour after all they are paying for the electricity though I expect our Nigerian government to re negotiate the MW they will sell to them so we can have more light time

jieta:

leathalbeast: :
your assertion is wack because nigeria doesnt sell power to ghana. never repeat that ignorant comment anywhere again.

you think so, maybe you should read about the power station in sapele delta state.

mars123:
how much MW are we generating? It isn't enough for you and I but our government is willing to share to other countries for money? This is not how countries that want to advance behave. It is laxity to agree to such demand.

No wonder Nigerians are suffering. We have a very poor thinking government. A government that doesn't care for its people. Do you think if Aso rock depended on that current its giving out, it will continue to give it out? But because its Nigerians that need it right?

obinnho10:
God knows I really expected a lot from this man. Et tu Fashola

Saliman22:
I pity some of the Nigerians that don't know this, I am a PDP member, my problem now is that Nigerian don't have geography student again, this I was taught in my ss1 the reason Nigeria do give them light, in case benin rep. Contrust their dam, the flow of water to kaiji dam will be reduce and as such the turban will not turn to generate good electricity, the speed of water is high in this their country and is the same force Nigerian is using on kaiji, I just want us to learn, I thought we wanted to asked him the reason we cannot have same light here. Thank u