I swear that the individuals that I have encountered there are very sharp minds. One of the many webinars that are being hosted there is currently dealing with potential of a constitutional review whereby states are responsible for the electrical power that they need. Here is my contribution:
FROM MY ARCHIVES:
Oduche Azih: Government (CBN) N300bn bonanza; gas-to-power infrastructure conundrum and other related matters - Daily Post Nigeria
https://www.google.com.ng/…/oduche-azih-government-cbn…/amp/
Oduche Azih: Government (CBN) N300bn bonanza; gas-to-power infrastructure conundrum and other related matters - Daily Post Nigeria
https://www.google.com.ng/…/oduche-azih-government-cbn…/amp/
Exerpt:
WHY NATIONAL GRID?
Let's try this "Crazy” Idea. . In one forum I had proposed the idea of discontinuing the national power grid as a way of resolutely devolving power over power (no pun intended) to the states and/or the six geopolitical zones. Within three months I read of three different individual who had independently come to the same conclusion. One was/is an engineering professor at the University of Lagos, the second a foreign technologist who had come into Nigeria for an event. The most amazing was the last, wait for it, a lawyer somewhere within the decision making structure of the ruling party PDP in Ogun State! I immediately linked up with him.
Let's try this "Crazy” Idea. . In one forum I had proposed the idea of discontinuing the national power grid as a way of resolutely devolving power over power (no pun intended) to the states and/or the six geopolitical zones. Within three months I read of three different individual who had independently come to the same conclusion. One was/is an engineering professor at the University of Lagos, the second a foreign technologist who had come into Nigeria for an event. The most amazing was the last, wait for it, a lawyer somewhere within the decision making structure of the ruling party PDP in Ogun State! I immediately linked up with him.
I envisage a situation where for example the people of Benue, Taraba, Nassarawa and Kogi States after despairing of waiting for ever to get the power they need. They then decide to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, determine by themselves just how much power they need and proceed to build the power plant required. Each of these states is bigger than The Gambia many times over. I do not want to bother visualising what the Lagos State Government can and will do if we simply stop standing in its way. The single fact of approvals and contracts no longer being awarded at Abuja will probably provide an extra four percentage point boost to the growth rate of the GDP.
I rest my case.
I invite readers to access the full article which is also available in BusinessDay, The Punch and on my blog.
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