the Philippines and Portugal, it is reputable American
privatisation schemes in
the P
find hilippines and Portugal, it is reputable American, Hong Kong, British,
Japanese, Finnish, German, French and Spanish firms that are mobilising FDI,
while an American firm leads Kazakhstan’s privatisation plan.
The current managers of
our power sector cannot deliver. You cannot give what you don’t have and it
will be an irredeemable blunder for the Buhari administration to attempt to
continu
business e subsidising the DisCos. The DisCos refuse to roll out prepaid meters
because that will force them to receive payment only for power supplied. For
operators with huge debts to service, gas and other bills, that will spell
insolvency. For now, the government, NERC and the DisCos are in an unholy
alliance to rob Nigerians and this is unconscionable. The principle of
capitalism is free entry and free exit. An inefficient enterprise deserves to
fold up and be replaced by competent entrepreneurs. It was the then
vice-president,
house Namadi Sambo, as statutory chairman of the National Council on
Privatisation, that oversaw the flawed auction of the DisCos to investors that
cannot deliver; Osinbajo should break from that mould.
The change slogan that
swept Buhari and Osinbajo to electoral victory demands that they urgently
re-visit the privatisation and invoke all necessary legislation to compel
performance or revoke the perpetually under-performing sales. The issue is not
tariffs: it is about v paying only for what you consume. Amadi has outlived his
usefulness and, unlike in the telecoms sector, set the industry on a shaky
foundation. This government will fail in its bid to revive the economy unless
it gets the power sector right.
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