That is the way we are in this country. We are fond of eye service and
white-washing. Because a big man, an international figure is visiting
Nigeria, all of a sudden, NEPA workers have woken up to their
responsibility," Segun Adepoju, a trader had said on Friday.
"I have always said that the problem of NEPA is more of a human factor that
technical. "
http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headline
s/000831/world/afp/Darkness_descends_on_Nigeria_after_Clinton_s_visit.html
Thursday, August 31 6:14 AM SGT
Darkness descends on Nigeria after Clinton's visit
LAGOS, Aug 30 (AFP) -
Power supplies to many parts of Nigeria, especially economic capital Lagos,
which surprisingly improved last week ahead of US President Bill Clinton's
visit, have returned to their erratic performance shortly after his
departure, residents said Wednesday.
In Ijeshatedo district in central Surulere part of Lagos, has been
experiencing several hours of electricity supply disruption since Monday
after Clinton ended his two-day state visit to Nigeria, residents said.
In Anthony village in northern residential district of Ikeja, power supply
was disrupted on Tuesday for more than six hours, they said.
The same story is replicated in Mushin, Agege, Iyana Ipaja, Yaba, Ebute Meta
and posh residential and commercial districts of Ikoyi and Victoria Island,
they added.
A spokesman of the state-run electricity company (NEPA), Inuwa Garba, denied
that the improvement in power supply recorded last week was because of
President Clinton's visit.
He attributed the improvement to the installation of new equipment and
maintainance of old ones.
"It is sheer coincidence that power shortages are being experienced shortly
after Clinton left.... The current problem is technical and we are trying to
rectify it," said another spokesman who demanded anonymity.
NEPA officials said on Friday that power supply in the country was boosted
last week by more than 300 percent ahead of US President's visit to the
country.
Power distribution shot up from 600 megawatts to 2,000 megawatts, a
spokesman of the company, Inuwa Garba, had told AFP by telephone.
"That is the way we are in this country. We are fond of eye service and
white-washing. Because a big man, an international figure is visiting
Nigeria, all of a sudden, NEPA workers have woken up to their
responsibility," Segun Adepoju, a trader had said on Friday.
"I have always said that the problem of NEPA is more of a human factor that
technical. Let us see what happens at the end of Clinton's visit," Emmanuel
Chiejina, a sociologist also said.
Power supplies, which improved tremendously when Nigeria co-hosted with
Ghana this year's African Cup of Nations, slumped again immediately after.
The company is notorious for its inefficiency though and its critics have
derisively turned its acronymn to "Never Expect Power Always."
The new civilian government of President Olusegun Obasanjo has pledged to
boost NEPA's generating and distributing capacity and then break up and sell
off the company.
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