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Electricity: A paradigm shift needed

The sudden drop of our electricity generation to 1327MW in recent time is totally unacceptable and simply reveals the ineptitude and inefficiency of both past and present government. Coupled with the scarce petroleum product, most Nigerians were made to face a hard timeout. What can we do with that capacity? Definitely, less! Personally, it got so 'good' that i had to without my 'precious' phone for almost three days. This is not the way to go as a nation. Things must be done right in this area of power. The privatisation exercise by the BPE looks more or less like a sham that needs to properly rechecked because there is no positive effect of the change. We need to start taking positive steps by copying other nation's models in ensuring development in that area. We should begin to look away from the conventional way of generating power. Don't know why we can't look into solar and wind power as a national project. Within 4 years we can successfully build a solar generating-power of nothing less than 2500MW rather than looting our national treasury. Its so annoying to the core! It presents us as a bunch of unseriousminded people who just don't have direction because of failed leadership. Nations with foresight have installed significant solar power capacity into their grids to supplement or provide an alternative to conventional energy sources while an increasing number of less developed nations have turned to solar to reduce dependence on expensive imported fuels. If something is not wrong then how can the largest producing oil country in Africa and also one of the largest exporting country of same product cannot boast if functional refineries. Yet we explore them here and refine them outside there in order to sell back to us. It is a shame! Some of these refineries are even owned or jointly owned by Nigerians. As at the last time i checked, South Africa is expected to reach an installed capacity of 8,400 MW from solar power generation and another 8,400MW from wind power by 2030. That's a country with a plan and that's quite laudable. They are always thinking ahead compare to us and this does not mean they don't have their own peculiar challenges. We have to solve this power issue among many other bedeviling matters of our nation otherwise things can get out of hand just like the one experienced by us all from our so called oil marketers and workers in that sector who went on a 1-day strike. This is not a measure in the interim or short term but a bailout in the long run.
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