Cut off mark? Who has not experienced the torture of explaining to an otherwise brilliant child that he/she cannot get into a school because he/she is from the wrong state. I do not need to bother my compatriots with my battle stories getting my kids into Fed Govt Unity schools for high school. The most enervating was when and how my daughter sought admission into Unilag, my only child to attend my alma mater.
Fast forward. . I have lately been commenting on the status of the electrical power industry. Has anyone noticed the way the membership of the governing board of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, was "equitably" zoned out? To what end I ask. I once took the trouble to check out the intellectual and professional backgrounds of some of them and I came out gravely dissappointed. Many of the members have no business being in that Commission.
As an an angry consumer, I do not particularly care if the right technocrats are sourced from say Kwarra or Edo State, if only they know what they are doing. I hold great respect for Dr Sam Amadi, but that has not stopped me from being brutally frank with him. The work at NERC is not another job for the boys/girls. I have drawn attention to the utter confusion among the ranks of the new power moguls, and made dire predictions on the future of the spun off Discos and Gencos. I doubt if anyone had taken me seriously. Meanwhile I stand by my predictions. In a lighter mood, I once picked on the management of Benin Disco. How I wish that they have seen the light. Perhaps they will share their new and improved insight with us all.
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