This is awesome, he is among the few performing PDP governors.

This power plant is being long overdue, Gov Akpabio please bring it on. . Hope it won't be one of those shifted launch dates again

Akpabio’s Scorecard; A Colossal Disappointment


POWER SECTOR;

With over 24 billion naira of tax payers money   already spent on IBOM POWER PLANT, it appears the IBOM POWER PLANT may end up like AJAOKUTA STEEL (GOD FORBID) which has allegedly been used as a conduit for siphoning money.

AKPABIO'S spin doctors are always quick to tell us that GAS is now the problem, and it's like AKPABIO'S 'MAGIC  ' has failed to work for 4 years.The bottom line is, the IPP has FAILED to produced the 24 hour uninterrupted power supply as promised by AKPABIO.
How can people believe that this present administration is serious about the power issue when streetlights along ABAK ROAD, UYO are still powered by generators in this jet age? The environmental and over head cost implications will be a topic for another day.



IBOM TROPICANA AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE;

This  misplaced priority is suppose to be the FLAGSHIP of this present administration and  was allegedly conceived in the image of SUN CITY of SOUTH AFRICA and  the famous DYSNEY LAND in Orlando, Florida, USA.While one is of the view that an entertainment centre can boost  the tourism potentials of the state,it is totally absurd that AKPABIO awarded the contract to SILVERBIRD (the contractor) for 33 billion naira of tax payers money. SILVERBIRD has built similiar project in LAGOS and ABUJA with its own FUND. Even the  SUN CITY RESORT  and DISNEYLAND , ANIEKAN UMANAH  mentioned in the write up  are not owned by STATE GOVERNMENTS.ANIEKAN UMANAH failed to mention that the respective  government in the SOUTH AFRICA and FLORIDA provided the enabling environment (security, power, favorably government policies) for private investors  to initiate and operate such ventures.


The resources that were channeled to TROPICANA should have been used on other projects like the AMAKPE REFINERY aPublic-Private Partnership project (PPP) that has been ignored by AKPABIO for reasons best known to him. I think it is pertinent to elucidate here that AKPABIO should borrow a clue from GOVERNOR FASHOLA who has created the enabling environment for PPPs to succeed in LAGOS STATE. Example includes, the EKO ATLANTIC CITY, THE BUS RAPID TRANSIT (BRT) SYSTEM, THE LEKKI-EPE EXPRESS WAY ,THE ISOLO MORTUARY SERVICES,THE WASTE TO WEALTH  PROJECT,and the LAGOS RAIL PROJECT. LAGOS STATE never spent a penny on SILVERBIRD GALLERIA (in Lagos)  which AKPABIO now considers  his FLAGSHIP in AKWA IBOM.It is like AKPABIO has  this  propensity  to only  award contracts ,instead of initiating friendly PPPs  that will save  AKWA IBOM a lot of money.

AMAKPE REFINERY that would have been used as CARROT for attracting the needed investors has been thrown to the dogs. How can we as a people ignore such a project that could create 20,000 direct and indirect jobs for the teeming youths roaming the streets of UYO? I will not be surprised tomorrow if AKPABIO says he wants to build a state owned REFINERY with tax payers’ money because he prefers to award contracts (perhaps for the ‘EGUNJE’ involve), and cognizance should be taken of the fact that public institutions have never been successfully managed in this country .And of course, the charlatans and sycophants will be hailing him without knowing their future is being heavily mortgaged.

Read the rest here>>>>>

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6788:akpabios-scorecard-a-colossal-disappointment&catid=25:politics&Itemid=92

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nice one.i like to hear constructive criticism.btw, i'm from akwa ibom b4 sum ppl call me a tribalist.that refinery and alscon are the two industries that will definitely take akwa ibom economy to a whole new level

careytommy:

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nice one.i like to hear constructive criticism.btw, i'm from akwa ibom b4 sum ppl call me a tribalist.that refinery and alscon are the two industries that will definitely take akwa ibom economy to a whole new level

Why bother me with your constructive criticism crap? Posting a news article written by other people and in fact an indigent of Akwa Ibom = Eko Ile criticizing? Trust me, I know how to stand by and defend my assertions.


Direct your thoughts and questions to the writer.

Talk is cheap

The IPP at Ibom currently evacuates 80MW out of its installed capacity of 191MW. 56 of this goes to Uyo while the rest goes to other states through the national grid. The idle capacity of 111MW is as a result of the limitation of the transmission lines between Eket and Uyo which is the property of the Federal Government. Until the FG inproves transmission capacity in line with the power sector roadmap, it is no use for us to keep building IPP's as this can be likened to a farmer with no access roads to his farm and whose produce thereby gets rotten at the farm for lack of transportation.

Ado ok

MODERATOR SIR,
PLEASE CREATE A SECTION ON THIS NAIRALAND THAT WILL BE CALLED POWER SECTOR.
THE ISSUE OF ELECTRICITY AS IT CONCERNS THE NIGERIAN SITUATIONS IS WORTH A SECTION PLEASE.

SINCERELY SPEAKING, ELECTRICITY IN IBESIKPO-ASUTAN AREA OF AKWA-IBOM HAS BEEN WORTH WHILE PRIOR TO THE ELECTIONS.I'M A SERVING CORP MEMBER ND CAN ATTEST TO THIS.

HOWEVER, THERE HAS BEEN NO POWER SUPPLY IN MY DOMAIN FOR D PAST ONE MONTH. GOV. AKPABIO SHOULD PLZ FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE LOOK INTO THIS.

AND CONCERNING THE POWER PLANT, I BELIEVE D GOVERNOR WILL KEEP TO HIS PROMISE. D GOVERNOR IS TRUELY PERFORMING IN MANY AREAS SUCH AS GOOD ROADS, STREET LIGHTS, FREE EDUCATION, E.T.C,

Wait . . . so they never had license to generate and distribute power before?
Heavens help Nigeria.

Promises!!!

The IPP at Ibom currently evacuates 80MW out of its installed capacity of 191MW. 56 of this goes to Uyo while the rest goes to other states through the national grid. The idle capacity of 111MW is as a result of the limitation of the transmission lines between Eket and Uyo which is the property of the Federal Government. Until the FG inproves transmission capacity in line with the power sector roadmap, it is no use for us to keep building IPP's as this can be likened to a farmer with no access roads to his farm and whose produce thereby gets rotten at the farm for lack of transportation.
Talk is cheap

@Nutty choky,
People like you give blind support to Akpabio, are u eating from his pot?Every sane person knows that ibom power plant isnt working and hasnt delivered 1 mega watt of power since Nsima akpabio was used as a conduit pipe to siphon money for Akpabio.Can u tell me whether u are working there to know how the Power plant is working?Can u elucidate on your assertion that the power plant has started work?where in Akwa Ibom today have light?where i live, i havent seen light in my part of Uyo for over 2months.if i see light,it might be 3 hrs in 24 hrs.Is that what over 24billion was spent to achieve?Rouges will meet their waterloo someday.If u are a paid agent of Godswill ,say so.Dont come here and misinform Nigerians.There isnt light in Akwa Ibom and the TRANSMISSION LINE built between Ikot Abasi and Uyo isnt ready and that is even if it is being built or we are being taken for a ride by Akpabio spin doctors and Paid agents, That project is a conduit pipe for stealing

It is public knowledge that some states in Nigeria have attempted to solve this problem, some of the states are Akwa ibom, Rivers, and i think lagos, i cant remember others, all have met a very big brick wall- the PHCN. For those who don't know, Power has three main components (Generation, Transmission and Distribution), the last two are still solely controlled by the big and failed PHCN, and untill we unbundle PHCN we CANNOT achieve power in Nigeria! let me tell you guys a short story, me and my collegues undertook a trip to a gas plant owned by a Multinational Company in the Niger Delta, the operations manager there told us that as part of their coperate social responsibility they provide electricity to the nearby communities, but we were all shocked to our bones when he told us that they pay PHCN some fees for giving the community electricity because PHCN is the only authorised body by law to distribute electricity in Nigeria, can you beleive that the shameless PHCN installed meters in every house and were calculating their service charge for every house for the multinational company to pay. So that is how bad the situation is. I know Akpabio's promise of uninterrupted power supply is based on the state capacity to generate power and the expectation that they will succeed in forming a distribution company alonside Rivers, Bayelsa and Cross River to distribute whatever power the plant generates. I know he can do it.

There has been no light for close to 2 months in Ibesikpo(the town dat links Uyo stste capital and Eket the oil city), and someone is preaching Ibom power plant, ABEGI!!!!!!!!!!

Another impressive Governor.

I am sure he would succeeds

Best of luck to him!

Who are these evil men that sit upon the progress of that country. May they all fall from their seats in Jesus name!

critic will die,  Akpabio is performing simple,  lets talk wat we see and leave critic or ethnicity. every body in Akwa Ibom State is benefiting in one way or the other from his administration and you are here criticizing the IPP, 

your business is not the  amount used for the contract,  thinK and pray it is actualize so that it will add more value to Akwa Ibom Economy because with a constant power supply, operations will be less and it will also bring investors to the state.

Uninterrupted power Supply my foot.Will that atone for the blood of people that were killed by this desperate governor in the last four years.Will they (AKWAIBOMITES)be able to see the kidnappers who are on the payroll of the governors with uninterrupted power supply?.I pray the unterrupted power supply will reduce killings in the church and also bring all the solen money of the state to light.No uninterrupted power supply will cleanse the blood of the people killed in the state by this pharoah.

in his house

I tire for this Akpabio guy o, he is talking of power when people are being kidnapped left right and center, you guys will not believe that a friend was kidnapped on Sunday and has not been released in Uyo, this madness started during his time and he has done nothing about it.