₦airaland Forum

Faiththatworks:
This is the genesis of the problem of Nigeria.
Entrenched Nepotism and Favoritism,these 2 factors have contributed greatly to the total failure and decline of Nigeria.
God bless Prof Barth Nnaji for standing firm on providing Electricity to power Aba.
I shudder when I think the project was held up in court for 10 years, a little bird whispered that a big man from Anambra who is the major shareholder in Enugu Disco tried to stop the Project. Nigeria will continue to regress unless Asiwaju scatters Nigeria.
Asiwaju must scatter power Generation,thank God he has already started the demolition, states,local government and even private individuals can now generate and distribute Electricity.
Asiwaju must scatter the Police,thank God the bill for the state police is now in the second reading in the National Assembly.
Asiwaju must scatter those who oppose State ownership of natural resources, let every state develop at his own pace. We must destroy this crazy myth that states can't own their own resources.
If a man can be trusted to guide the affairs of a state and he does it very well,and is now promoted to rule the Country,why can't we allow such a person to handle the natural resources in his/her state.
We must scatter Nigeria by allowing each state control their resources,only then can we progress as a nation.
God bless Nigeria.

immortalcrown:
Odogwu no be nickname, na achievement and attitude. None like him in APC.

9jatriot:
I have said it before and I will say it again. GEJ should never have allowed his top performing minister to resign. If he could protect Desianni and Stella Uduah, then Barth should have been protected at all cost even if it meant lookking the other to what his distractors were accusing him of.

Bishop4real:
The APC you curse gave LIFE to that project. Without the APC led administrations, who knows what would have become of that wonderful project

obaidan:
Jonathan no be leader truth be told, a good man yes BUT a leader? Definitely not. No will. He had the best chance to correct the ills of Nigeria, he had not much people to pay back for making him president, he wasn't so ambitious like others, he should have just gone ahead following his conviction on what he thinks is right. He also lacked the will to deal with criminals around him, I will say stellah oduah and Diezani alone cost him 1 million votes

Creamypie:
Power improved very very well under Barth nnaji. I was amongst those few sensible ones who wondered y some people were campaigning he be removed. That was 2012. After he left, nebo Chinedu was appointed, light stopped functioning immediately.

immortalcrown:
Odogwu no be nickname, na achievement and attitude. None like him in APC.

Nyamiriflathed:
One of two president below pushed him out of his government.

gidgiddy:
Barth Nnaji, the proponent of Geometric Power, Aba, has revealed why he resigned as Minister of power during the Jonathan administration. Speaking to BBC Igbo, Nnaji said he resigned over what happened during the privatisation process. According to him, he had insisted that all DISCOS must have two things, technical expertise and financial independence to operate, so as to weed out those who wanted to use Privatisation to make quick money. However, enormous pressure was put on him to change this policy and he could see that harm might be done to him if he didn't, so he resigned. He regretted that after he left, many of the DISCOS eventually failed due to lack of technical expertise, and the banks they borrowed money from took over the assets

When asked if he was once offered a bribe of a Prado Jeep, Bart Nnaji laughed and said that he had already invested 500 million Dollars in Geometrics before he became Minister and that if he wanted to buy 100 Prado Jeeps today, he could do it.

He also said that Geometric Power was initially supposed to start in 2013 but court battles delayed the Project by 10 years. He also revealed that unlike other Power companies, the power generated by Geometric power would not go to the national grid, but go to Aba and 9 other local governments in Abia state as a start.

https://www.bbc.com/igbo/articles/c9epzrl91j0o?fbclid=IwAR21ximeQHd1ZT7Ch23sW1wennrFDqCmW8UKYhOwiy6hkFOrZxwZCR3i4RA

9jatriot:
I have said it before and I will say it again. GEJ should never have allowed his top performing minister to resign. If he could protect Desianni and Stella Uduah, then Barth should have been protected at all cost even if it meant lookking the other to what his distractors were accusing him of.

Creamypie:
Power improved very very well under Barth nnaji. I was amongst those few sensible ones who wondered y some people were campaigning he be removed. That was 2012. After he left, nebo Chinedu was appointed, light stopped functioning immediately.

slimfit1:
That is why I hate Jonathan since then I knew he didn't know what he is doing. I am Yoruba I saw what this man is worth to Nigerian people Jonathan didn't. He kept people that don't want Nigeria to get better kept thieves to manage economy got rid off the right people.

Beverlyjean:
The Igbos are the gateway ti Nigeria's success... as long as we keep on electing other tribes...the country will keep on going down... reason other tribes fight the emergence of Biafra is because , Biafra will be a success and others will be exposed , especially the yorubas .... that's when they will understand that there's more to success than gragra or " POLITRICKS"

Pergie001:
Professor Barth Nnaji has become a high profile casualty in the crisis in Nigeria’s power sector as President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday “accepted” his resignation as the Minister of Power with immediate effect. The development opened a new chapter in the standoff between unions of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and the federal government over modalities for fully privatizing the electricity sector.

A statement by Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati said President Jonathan thanked Prof. Nnaji “for his services to the nation under the present administration and wishes him well in his future endeavours.”

Nnaji’s resignation comes barely two weeks after the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) demanded his resignation citing “vituperation on the workers in the sector. NUEE also accused the then minister of engaging in fraudulent activities in the Power Sector and misinforming Nigerians to the extent of putting them under tension unnecessarily. shocked shocked shocked

The union had also demanded explanation from Nnaji in connection with his role or activities in relation to issues like:

N395m collected from PHCN allegedly for the Media, for 3 months; << 40-man laptop squad no doubt got some rich pickings from this largess grin >>
N280m collected from PHCN allegedly for Nigeria Army;
N200m collected from PHCN allegedly for Unknown Project in the Power Ministry;
N86m collected from PHCN allegedly for a bullet -proof vehicle;
N3m collected from PHCN and donated to Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT); and
Employment of 20 people in Enugu Zone of PHCN who are his kith and kins as staff two years after the closing date of casual employment and close of PHCN biometrics exercise.

“He should also explain to Nigerians why we have been collecting Pension and Gratuity from 1972 till June 2012 based on 25 percent, and why his reform tends to short change the workers,” the statement said, adding that the development confirms the fears of workers in the power sector that Nnaji’s reform is aimed at strangulating workers.” A statement by the union leadership had said.



The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria accepted today the resignation of Barth Nnaji, the hitherto Minister of Power.

The resignation is reportedly connected to the revelations first premiered by Business Day which linked the former cabinet member to an underground bid for Afam Power Station.

Nnaji revealed to the National Council on Privatiation last Friday that his company, Geometrics, was a shareholder in a company that bid for the Afam Power Station.

Afam Power Station has an installed capacity of 775 Megawatts which is 18% of the country’s current total power generation.

The revelation came as a surprise, although many Nigerians were already aware that the privatiation of PHCN was simply an unbundling of the country’s power assets to the cabal.

However the undoing of Mr. Nnaji may have come about as a result of the dispute between himself as minister and PHCN employees.

The PHCN employees were embittered by Nnaji’s refusal to pay them adequate terminal benefits running into hundreds of billions of Naira. The conflict-of-interest being he would not want an asset he was planning to acquire to be hugely indebted to the soon-to-be disengaged PHCN staff.

More details as they emerge

Beverlyjean:
The Igbos are the gateway ti Nigeria's success... as long as we keep on electing other tribes...the country will keep on going down... reason other tribes fight the emergence of Biafra is because , Biafra will be a success and others will be exposed , especially the yorubas .... that's when they will understand that there's more to success than gragra or " POLITRICKS"

Yujin:
Imagine all the accusations against him by union members and PHCN employees. I'm glad he left and carried on with his business. Don't overwork yourself for those who don't know or value your worth. Let your private work testify to your claims and capability. That's the story of Prof. Barth Nnaji and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala. More Igbo professionals should channel their expertise back home. We appreciate good things and will support you to build whatever you can for the overall good of AlaIgbo.
God bless Prof. Barth Nnaji.
God bless Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
God bless Gov. Alex Otti
God bless Professor Nnennaya who ensured Abia people's choice got to lead them.
God bless the entire AlaIgbo irrespective of what geopolitical region it was carved into.