“I would have loved that you ask ordinary Nigerians on the street of Lagos, Abuja or any other city this question about power. This is one area that Nigerians are quite pleased with the government that our commitment to improve power is working. So if you are saying something different, I’m really surprised. That is one area that even civil societies agree that the government has kept faith with its promise.
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“We have not got to where we should be and of course we know that power infrastructure is one investment that you must complete the chain before a bulb can light. You must generate, you must transmit, you must distribute and even if you have the money and the political will, you cannot do it overnight and we are working very hard, you cannot do it overnight.”
These were the words of president Goodluck Jonathan when he was asked what his government was doing to the power situation in Nigeria in a recent interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
The famous TV presenter however will have the president thinking as she recently compared the current power situation in Nigeria to the recent power outage during a super bowl match in the USA.
The CNN crew further went to Lagos, Nigeria to confirm what the president said, most of the people interviewed however revealed the poor state of power supply in Nigeria.
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May God forgive Nigerians for being ungrateful to the little change we have experienced so far.
ReplyDeleteThere is improvement in the Power Sector compare to what we have in the past.
If CNN want to know they should establish their station in Nigeria and not going on the street to meet with dubious minded people to inquire about changes in Nigeria.
We complained that the economy is bad and yet we keep changing brands (car, house etc)
Anonymous 08:00 why should they come and establish their station in Nigeria just to confirm that power has improved when even your advised them rightly to confirm from ordinary Nigerians on the street of Lagos, Abuja and other cities which they did. Do you know what some Nigerians sacrifice to buy cars and build houses? Pls save us that kind of talk. Trust Nigerians if we eat well and live well, we will not complain. We see how our so called leaders loot and squander our commonwealth and you expect us not to demand more of them? Common!!!
ReplyDeleteUnless you live in Abuja, there's no reason you should think there's any improvement in power supply.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm sorry, but in Lagos, the situation has gone from bad to worse.
In other parts of the country, the black out usually lasts for as long as two days.
Only the politicians are changing cars, every other person is still struggling to survive.
These 'dubious minded people' are telling the truth and CNN has every right to report what our government-influenced media would gladly cover up.
8.00 am, feb, 6, 2013. Wait o if u are not dubious, hw do come abt ur analysis? hw many of the populace keep changing brands (car, house)? if u are nt among those few at d expense of the people resource. U calling God, do u tink God is a gambler or a magician? & wat is forgive?
ReplyDeleteOur President may be a good man. He might even be qualified for many offices and responsibilities. But the office of Mr. President, is beyond his ken. There are ne reasons to tolerate the mediocrity and corruption that pervades Governance in Nigeria. You do not need to love Gov Fashola of Lagos to see that Lagos is changing (has changed)
ReplyDeleteAm ashamed at nigerians who can sell their pride cos of a CNN interview... If u watch CNN regularly, espcially Amanpour's talkshow, it's all about negativity... Nigerians please change ur mind set, I saw the video this morning and I'm still pissed at what I saw, why did CNN go to d slums where they have all sort of illegal cobweb connection on electric poles,vandalised transformers and powerlines, and call it LAGOS meaning dat area represents the whole of lagos, I live in AJAH and I can tell u that generators are nolonger relevant in my area cos of the improved power supply, also when I travelled to Edo state for the yuletide, I met the same improvement in power supply,if u don't have light in ur area for 3 weeks I don't see how that is GEJ's fault, it doesn't mean the whole of lagos or nigeria as a whole doesn't have light. Don't forget there are people who are in charge of distributing this power to various power station across the country, if u don't protect power installations against vandalism I wonder how power will get to ur house. As citizens, we have a role to play, it's a collective effort, don't sit down and complain..those supporting CNN Amanpour's facts are those that doesn't see anything good in Nigeria...nothing can be done to please these calibre of people, even if everything is rightly done, they would still complain and they themselves don't do anything right...professional critics I call them.... Thumbs up GEJ for the improved power supply.
ReplyDeleteWe need to b honest with ourself, even if dis govt.has not gotten to where we want them to be in terms of power supply they have tried,Abuja per say.
ReplyDeleteWhen we want to evaluate the performance on power, we should use some metrics in reaching our conclusions. My electric power was much better during the days of Yaradua than it is now (I moved to this area during Yaradua's time). Then, I could readily expect power about 50% of the time except when there is a fault. Sometimes, it went as high as 70% of the time. Now, I cannot boast of power up to 40% of the time. Sometimes we go for days without light and that happens like two to four days every week. So while I cannot speak about other areas of Lagos, I can speak for my area and honestly, the power situation is not good at all.
ReplyDelete@rafael, yes Amanpour's show is about negativity. She doesnt create these negative stories. She exposes true negative stories so that the world knows about them and those that are in a position to take action can be motivated to take necessary action. People have a right to complain when dey dont get what govt owes them: good roads, electricity, water supply and a functional police force. We see these things working effectively in other countries so why should ours be different with all the income we get from natural resources? Instead, our ear drums are almost bursting with reports of billions being stolen everyday: pension funds, national reserves, petroleum subsidy, contract scams, etc. and yet no one is prosecuted. Let's be honest with ourselves. Visit any of the power stations let them tell you the true situation of things!!!
ReplyDeleteas far as am concerned,light increasd by 70%.i live n isolo nd i enjoy light well weeellllllllll.
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