I am very happy to read more on this issue this morning, I will have to say that the execuses given by the minister, Dr. Zaku is not tennable in real sense. A well design Solar Energy system for important project as Satellite should have automatic charging system attachment. I hope the Minister and NigComSat's Company are not playing games. We are watching the games and I sincerely hope the public fung(Government money)will not be spent to rectify what ever problems found in this case. Thank you.

Adamson Ifesanya

This is an article from Naija Internet forum that speaks loud and clear on this issue. I did not consider it necessary posting a rebuttal since this article eloquently and explicitly is right on the money.

FYI.

Thanks for shedding some light into this note worthy episode in our nation's debacle but unbeknown to many Nigerians as the most predicted catastrophe facing Nigeria even worst than looting and stashing away of our national treasury by our leaders. Nigeria is a nation that has refused to learn to synergies her resources due to tribal and religious sentiments.

I remember vividly a song I heard in the late 1980s and the lyrics of the song said something to the effect that " The thing wey dey for China, Europe or America also dey for Sokoto, Aba and Ibadan Etc. and that Nigeria is our country we must salvage it together"

History would also reveal that Nigeria squandered a great opportunity when the war ended. Instead of harnessing and tapping into the intellect of those "Biafran Geniuses" who single handed built the formidable Biafran military armament that sustained the young republic for more than thirty six months of the war were detained, tortured and dispersed. Had Nigeria kept the Biafran Research and Development the architect of the Ogbunigwe factors and Shore Batteries that kept the largest Nigeria warship NNS at bay at Onne as history revealed, chances were that Nigeria would have been a power house. Biafra had no choice since the Federal Government blockaded her so she looked inward and her people answered the call of duty. The Biafra’s pride is not that they fought a war of survival but that they realized the potentials that abound in them due to necessity.

China was written off by the West until Chairman Mao asked his people to look inward and China were shut off to the outside world for over ten years but when China arrived back into the scene she became the darling of the West and a major economic and military player as we speak.

Nigeria is even equipped to do what China did instead of asking China to build her Satellite but the discovery of oil in Nigeria took away our initiative and determination as a nation to compete favorably in the world. Nigeria has many physicist, engineers, doctors, administrators, technocrats just to name a few scattered all over the world and helping to develop other places but unable to come home. Ask genuine Nigerians in the Diaspora they would tell you that they have been ready to come home and be prepared to burst their chaps to elevate Nigeria. The truth is that the leadership and all those who are use to stealing and stashing away money do not want us home though they pretend about their desire hence NIDO has been a charade.

Nigeria Government would rather contract out sensitive project of our national security to China or any other countries rather than pay Nigerians well and show them some respect to do the job. It is obvious that the only sole reason for this malady is that those trusted with this task are not thinking about Nigeria but their own pockets. There would be much more missing stuff until we get it right.

One thing that struck me is what the minister is talking about the insurance company paying for the cost of a new satellite or the cost of repair in the event that it is replace or repaired. I a normal situation, the company that manufactured the satellite should bear the whole cost, unless the minister is indirectly saying that there is no enough warranty for the satellite project that has so cost the country a fortune.