is if you do not allow him to hijack the session. Versed in virtually all aspects of labour, Ajaero can talk for as long as you allow him. Blessed with institutional memory, the unionist laid bare the problems confronting Nigeria’s power sector, tracing it back to the days of the NDA, ECN, NEPA and PHCN, before the shambolic privatisation process which has brought the sector to this sorry pass.
But immediately that area was touched, from transportation, housing to foodstuff, everything changed. And these are the things we need. You can’t even save one naira. This one is not for you to have any savings. And if anybody is now saying, “Oh, you are wrong in this item because we itemized it”, it is subject to negotiation.
If it is a contract they are awarding, a contract for N20,000,000, and you are putting N200,000,000, and the contract passes through, and the person commits the offence. Maybe if he is still alive, you can prosecute him. Now, there is no system that can stop the person from awarding a contract of N20,000,000 that has been inflated to N200,000,000. Until we become proactive to stop it from happening, this thing will continue to be there.
Countries all over the world make sure that even if it is half a year, they bring in 500 or 1000 megawatts. And as of today, Nigeria should be thinking of a power plant that they will commission by December or by 2025, 2026, because it takes a gestation period of about three or four years. If you are not constructing anyone today, there is no one you can commission in the next three years. All of us are saying the power situation, power situation, 3000 megawatts.
The global index is one million people for 1,000 megawatts. You have a country of over 200 million battling for 4,000 megawatts. How can you develop? If you store turbines in those river bases, in an emergency, we can even shore up to almost 1,000 or 1,500. You can see that we can do more with solar. There is one power plant in South Africa, ESCOM, producing about 2,000 megawatts through coal. Nigeria is not even talking about the large coal deposits in the country. If we diversify all these areas, before long, we can make even 20,000 megawatts. It will go a long way for us.
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