This Day (Lagos)
15 September 2008
The much-touted emergency in the power sector may have witnessed a setback as only seven of the 36 states of the Federation have secured approvals from their respective assemblies to contribute a portion of their excess crude proceeds into the special intervention fund for projects in the sector.
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Is this not the same approach used by OBJ’s administration to have each local govt areas contribute a portion of their federated account funds towards building health centers so that each local govt residents could have access to basic health care and treatment? Yar would have none of it and scrapped it to spite his predecessor as wasteful. If a dunce promised during his campaign for Presidency to declare emergency in the power sector but wasted precious time dismantling the most logical ideas put in place by his predecessor and now awoke from his slumber a year and half later, with almost half of his tenure wasted on unproductive partisanship to now attempt to implement the same idea of his predecessor of getting each state to contribute to their respective power sector development, who would take him seriously. This is a self inflicted wound that is all too common in our society – the Nigerian shuffle – one step forward, twenty steps backwards. O’ well, whatever, lets all just siddon, continue to look and suffer in silence and expect god to come down and help us. Guess what, god helps those who help themselves by getting rid of this inept, visionless leadership. Geez!