aolawale025:
But fashola himself blamed the previous government. So this government deserves blame too. We can not shift the post after a goal

MetaPhysical:


The Power Ministry is a regulator. If you scrap it you will end up paying through your nose to get electricity from the providers as there will be no oversight on price gouging....and then you will turn around and blame it on Buhari for scrapping the regulation that kept them in check

nnamdibig:
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja 



https://punchng.com/its-not-fgs-problem-if-nigerians-lack-electricity-fashola/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

chivic:
OK its my fault.
I have been paying exorbitant estimated Nepa bills and you said its not government fault?May be i should pay more.Nonsence

ProAnti:


Let's for the sake of argument assume the private owners have been bad managers. What can we say of the government who is not just a part-owner in some of the companies but who in most cases fully own some of the key players?

The issues bedevilling the power sector can be solved by the private sector if and only if they get the backing of the government and the consumers.

We cannot put all the blame on the doorsteps of the private part-owners of the discos (and gencos) as the liquidity and other issues they face are substantial. As @Reference rightly inferred, government agencies and facilities are some of the biggest electricity debtors. I don't expect a disco staff to confidently disconnect a military installation for failing to pay electricity bills.

taekwon:
The same man told us that every reasonable government should be able to provide power for it's citizenry within six months. why the stupid excuse. if you can't effect change then i suppose you should quit the position. FOOLS. Self centered idiots in a zoo country.

MetaPhysical:


The Power Ministry is a regulator. If you scrap it you will end up paying through your nose to get electricity from the providers as there will be no oversight on price gouging....and then you will turn around and blame it on Buhari for scrapping the regulation that kept them in check

DavIkenna:


Then who r d private companies we should turn. Why not publicize them? Why do we still pay nepa bills to phcn

MetaPhysical:


The Power Ministry is a regulator. If you scrap it you will end up paying through your nose to get electricity from the providers as there will be no oversight on price gouging....and then you will turn around and blame it on Buhari for scrapping the regulation that kept them in check

Pecca:

There is NERC whose job is to regulate electricity providers in the country. You don't need a minister/ministry if that is the case. scrap it! APC members talk just so they can hear their own voice.

VolvoS60:
This man is unravelling and it is a joy to watch.

An extremely cynical individual. This is the same man who as Lagos state governor said Freedom of Information legislation should be applicable to the federal government but not the states.

Instead of addressing the key reasons why there is no power - (reasons such as government's indebtedness to GENCOs and the ineffective, compromised NERC) the man now tells Nigerians they are to blame for their problems.

In a sense though, the man is right. Nigerians, through their unbelievably poor choices ARE to blame for their problems.

A country gets the leadership it deserves.

Reference:
Technically he is correct. In privatisation the levels of performance directly relates to the overall capacity of the nation at that point in time. If Nigeria expects better service it should be prepared to make deeper comittments, deeper sacrifices. Government does not provide power. Power is business.

I am in the know of this. The power sector requires massive, really massive investments that have not been made for decades in the past to match the growth in population. To raise such capital fast you need an overly attractive business model that will draw out these finances from where they presently yield for the owners. It is this business model that the operators cannot square up because the rates that are currently paid cannot ROI in a normal scenario thoughtless of one where competition for investor funds is needed.

Our population is a big challenge here and at the rate we are progressing it will take several decades before we see the last power outages, probably not in my lifetime.

seguno2:


Would you agree that the PDP, whom Fashola told us were the problem four years ago, put in place the key elements of this attractive business model?
Has Fashola, Buhari and APC done anything, policy wise, to improve the inherited business model in order to make it more attractive

BluntBoy:


You people are just throwing blames up and down.

Do you even know how many Nigerians are short-changing the distribution companies by using illegal connections and enjoying electricity without paying a dime. And the sad thing is that even some universities and big industries too would be owing electricity bills running into billions of naira.

That is why I tell people that Nigeria's problem is not just a problem of leadership. Change must come from everyone.

Fashola has made efforts, aggressive and passive, to deal with exploitations. Perhaps you are not current. But it is an open secret that the businessmen running the DISCOs don't like Fashola.

deomelo:
PDP spent 16 years in power, they generated the largest oil earnings in the history of Nigeria and on top of that stole $16 billion power fund, but these Igbos are blaming a 3-year-old government for 16 years of failure looting, stealing and fraudulent power privatization.

These Igbos are just too pathetic...

moshould:
The sellers are also the buyers, I hate the bastard that started this private thing, before the advent of private, all public firms were working, now all we see is private school, private hospital, private refinery, private estate, private beach, private jets, private universities, and all others except private parts... May God punish all our bastardy leaders that used our money to pay themselves to own our public properties... Your generation will suffer by God's Grace.. Bastards

ericmor:


The thing is, they know the right thing to do but they won’t just do it. That is the area I don’t understand

obailala:
The government no longer owns the assets, when he made that statement, the government was still responsible for the power assets 100%. What exactly is stupid in what he's said? Why is reading so difficult for Nigerians?

tiredoflife:


I didn't want to say a word cos I am in shock hearing what fashola is saying.
Yes u are right about fixing electric prices as a problem but this is not the total truth
Truth is the minimum wage
You don't want a good minimum wage so how won't they fix prices
Wage is suppose to be able to cover expenses
But when the minimum wage is nothing to talk about
U must fix prices or use subsidy
Nigeria will not work as long as the leaders minimum wage is bigger than the citizens
Their take home pay is good enough to cover expenses but that of workers is so poor
I have lived in the UK
I have seen power supply at its best
Let there be increase in the wage to correspond to basic needs
That way the government and investors can take back what was paid to workers through the back door while the investors can be sure to make gains
Not forming price fixing and expecting investors to take the loss

ImperialYoruba:
Fash, tell them abeg!

You cant privatize and then lean on FG to fix the issue. Who privatized power in the first place. Please dont tell me this was Obasanjo and Atiku's legacy.

jmaine:


Fashola made that statement in March 2015, which was over a year after the unbundling or partial privatization of the power sector in 2013.
Get your facts correctly.
Fashola is very stupid and shameless for uttering this crap.

https://www.nairaland.com/2186803/power-supply-all-homes-lagos

Power supply: All homes in Lagos will be lit in six months if… —Fashola

March 09, 2015

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said the solution to the problem of power sector could be achieved in six months if the Distribution Companies, DISCOs, were ready to yield some percentages of their concessions to the state government.

Fashola made this statement at the commissioning of the 1.2 kilometer Glover Road and 8.5 megawatts, Peninsula Integrated Power Project, PIPP, Lekki, Eti-Osa Local Government Area.

obailala:
Hmmm... You should take the words of a politician to literally, especially words said just befor elections.

But then again, if you go back and read that statement from the report you supplied, there's a very important conditional clause to it which everyone seems to ignore for whatever reason whilst we selectively re-echo the 'sweet' part of the statement. And that conditional clause is still what Fash is talking of today, i.e. "if the DISCOs will yield some of their rights back to his govt."
The point he's simply tried to make is that there's not much he can do to improve an asset if the asset isnt owned or operated by him. Whilst we might all agree that he's just making excuses, you cant deny the fact that it's a viable excuse.