As the House Committee on Power and Steel probing power sector funding between 1999 to 2007 meets tomorrow to consider over 80 exhibits presented to it during its public hearing, more revelations have emerged on how the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, waived due process for payments and made anticipatory approvals for the power projects.
Records like this reveal the truth of what actually transpired in the course of upgrading and building of the power projects by the Obasanjo administration. Any right thinking person without preconceived ideas can read through former President Obasanjo's mind how passionately he felt about the power situation in the country that he pushed for a fast track of the projects. In the light of the experience in the country presently, was he not right or could this not be seen as somebody with good foresight? It is believed that if since the change of admnistration the new leaders really took over and followed the inspection and control of the power projectsseamlessly and wih the same passion as the former regime the situation should have been a lot different. It should be understood that the RESPOSIBILITY OF ANY ADMINISTRATION IS TO PROVIDE, FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE NECSSARY AMENITIES TO THE CITIZENS IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT TRANSPIRED BEFORE IT. It is a very wrong approach with serious damage to the economy for the administration to defer provision of necessary amenities until past records are investigated. The present administration has been in office for close to a year but the black-outs in the country is getting worse depicting the administration as not better than a failure as at now.
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