
I have always wondered why there is no stable power in Nigeria. Is it that when God said "let there be light" it didn't apply to Nigeria? The situation in my beloved country has gone from worse to unimaginable. But really what is the problem with this nation? cant anything be right? We supply almost every country on the Niger river with stable electricity but how come we do not have? this is a perfect situation of monkey they chop baboon they chop because we are the ones generating the electricity.
There have been allegations that there is a cartel that has been sabotaging our power plants and frustrating the governments efforts to stabilize power. Any real Nigerian would know there are alot of cartels like the fuel importers, truckers and probably the generator cartel. Nigeria is one of the biggest markets for generators in the world and without the power holding company withholding power, there will be plenty power and so no use for generators. Is it possible that both importers and manufacturers are the selfish bastards sabotaging our electricity supply?
Frankly i think enough is enough. The government has privatized Nepa but instead of increase in power supply we had decrease in power supply and increase in bills. What i keep asking my self is that do they think we are stupid? or that everybody has had a piece of the national cake?
Most of this year, i have been in school were we have power 24 hours a day. I went home for 4 days and we only had 30 minutes of public power supply. My family had been running on the generator for 4 months straight and even had to procure a new one because of the stress on the other one. This of course opened my eye to one fact, only two people are gaining from this problem and they are the generator importers and producers and diesel suppliers.
But is it that people in the government are too stupid to realize this fact and try and arrest the situation? The amount of generators in Nigeria if coupled together will provide stable power supply for the country with only company's like globacom using about 500,000 generators. And one fact is true, this power shortage is one of the sources of our economic problems. because of unstable power supply many investors shy from Nigeria. Even Michelin tires that had been operating in Nigeria for a while now shut down their factory sometime this year because of poor electricity supply throwing thousands into the labor market. There are also other company's that need stable power supply to operate

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