Leadership (Abuja)
10 October 2008
editorial
Never should the time come for archaeo-logists to excavate the report, presented yesterday by the Ndudi Elumelu Committee, which investigated the massive funding but illogical and colossal failure of the power sector.
The amount? $16 billion, spent or unspent or pilfered by the defunct administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007).
The return on investment was worse and more costly than the destructive and ceaseless power cuts which engendered it.
So, Thursday October 9, 2008 should not end up as just another ritual. Rituals of probe committees, setting terms of reference, receiving their reports and issuing White Papers on them defame this country for their non-implementation.
Unrelated here, but expedient to recall, are the several reports on the Niger Delta crisis turned in by the many committees formed to devise solutions to it.
They were excavated and dusted up only in September by the Ledum Mitee Technical Committee now that the problem is escalating.
The Elumelu committee's report must not be buried in officialdom's irresolution and ineptitude. Vision 20-2020 is easy to propagandise but fulfilling it requires electric power.
Therefore, the report should be activated NOW!
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