Buhari, let there be light – power first

“Let there be light”
It was in my Junior (third year) at the university, in the USA, when I undertook
a study titled COMPARATIVE RELIGION, when the discovery was made. Until
then I was under the mistaken impression that there were two religions in the
world – Christianity and Islam. But, very soon, after arriving in the US in 1964,
armed with an American Government Scholarship, a third religion was added to
the list – Judaism.
But, it was not until 1966
that the revelation came
through this course that there
are more than 1000 religions
worldwide. Among the most
common beliefs of virtually
all religions in the idea that
God/Allah/Yahweh etc
ordered light to be created as
a pre-condition to other acts
of creation and development.
Granted our nation faces
several problems calling for
urgent attention – mostly
Boko Haram and general
insecurity, corruption, unacceptably high unemployment, equitable distribution of
the dividends of democracy, infrastructure, education, health, etc – but, one
item on the national agenda which will speed up progress on the rest is POWER
SUPPLY.
Supply has been emphasized because, the outgoing governments and its
Ministers of Power, as well as praise-singers, had wasted their time and money
during the campaigns pointing to increased generating capacity.
What they failed to understand, or, more likely deliberately ignored is the matter
of distribution; meaning supply to homes. Let me illustrate what is meant by
this from my days as a Marketing/Sales executive. Most brands fail because the
brand owners fail to bring the product close enough to the consumer. Infant
milk is an example.
Every nursing mother knows that when you have a baby yelling for food at two
in the morning, the baby milk in a store, miles away, is a distinctly different
product from the one in the refrigerator.
Jonathan’s Ministers, who became jesters with their failed promises on power
supply had concentrated on production without taking corresponding steps to
ensure that the power reaches consumers. Till today, the daily power supply to
Nigeria is under 4000MW, irrespective of what the production capacity is. That
level of power output cannot get us anywhere.
It is remarkable that the best Nigeria had been able to do was achieved in
December 2012, when we attended 4517MW of power supplied. That was two
years and three months ago. That feat, hardly worthy of a nation destined for
greatness, had not been equaled since. The most obvious question is: what had
the government been doing in twenty seven months if it could not, at least,
maintain that level?
Worse still, if in two years, the nation had actually lost ground, when are we
ever going to progress? Clearly, no progress had been made in twenty seven
months if today we cannot receive 4517MW steady supply. More to the point;
how could the outgoing President, knowing the lack of progress in power
SUPPLIED have kept the Minister who had failed him and the nation so
woefully? And, how could the out-going President tell Nigerians that he had
fulfilled his campaign promises?
Were we promised that there would be no progress on power supply in twenty
seven months, while officials earned their huge emoluments? When was such a
promise made to us? President-elect Buhari must recognize that there will be
no significant progress on all fronts until there is substantial increase in power
supply. To this he must address himself urgently.
Unfortunately, that will require going and digging up a lot of dirt buried by his
predecessors. Several contractors are still seating on our funds for contracts
not fully executed ot even totally abandoned. It would amount to monumental
folly to go around seeking for loans to undertake the task on hand when
Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan had drawn down billions of dollars to
increase our capacity to 10,000MW without doing it.
Articles which will follow will detail the list of known contracts which are yet to
yield results. Something must happen. The contractors must either complete
the jobs or refund our money. All economies, even from primitive times, have
always run on energy; the more a nation can generate the faster it can
transform the resources at its disposal to benefits for its people.
We lag behind because we are currently failing to generate the power to make
rapid progress. Buhari can change a lot of things simply by altering the power
supply situation as fast as possible. Once he gets that underway, he can start
chasing the crooks who stole our funds. Even there, he would need to fast
track. There is already sufficient information in the public domain fro him to
start with – before going into the secret official files which will reveal more
information. He will receive all the help he needs from me – whether he asks for
it or not.

make sure u do everytin u promise us

Dumso in everywhere

Yes He will

everything is being taken care of, no worries

Yes o!

God will answer our prayer.

................................................ Yes when we he will answer us....................

When it needed to be answer. He knows the right time

don start his wahalla

aneke peter chukwujekwu wrote:

make sure u do everytin u promise us

U ar nt in d position to say dat to buhari, hope jonah still dey alive

Ya

OLOBE wrote:

aneke peter chukwujekwu wrote:

make sure u do everytin u promise us

U ar nt in d position to say dat to buhari, hope jonah still dey alive

Lolz, nah true u talk olobe.
But leave ham, he don join the winning team.
If u can beat them u join them

join an holigan

buhari will die like former president

God will not let that come to past if thats what u ppl are expecting, he will finish his 4yrs in good health ijn (AMEN)

GMB promised 1meal per day for primary school pupil? Ok make sure say it comes to pass ooo!

It will

oh why... Plx dont say dat...