Ever since Prof. Barth Nnaji was removed as Minister of Power, I kept delaying the need to write something about the power situation in the country and the scandalous entity called the Power Holding Company of Nigeria. Well, I am furiously writing this now because I just received another crazy bill from the PHCN and my patience suddenly turned into anger, shock, disappointment and anguish.
There is really no point repeating the shame, rot, scandal and gargantuan personification of corruption that is the power sector of our economy; we have been treated to gory tales of maggot-infested faeces-like scam that is replicated in the industry by past governments. Billions of dollars have been sunk into providing reliable power supply to Nigerians but the result is nothing but more darkness and dilapidated transmission and generation equipment while those entrusted with the task or funds suddenly became billionaires and recipients of national honours and chieftaincy titles!
To bring the gist closer home, my monthly PHCN bills have remained on a steady rise since Nnaji bowed out; under his reign as Minister of Power, I enjoyed a substantial amount of power supply sold at N22 per khz. Incidentally, Nnaji’s efforts at sanitising the industry ruffled some feathers, feathers that apparently benefit from the rot in the system, and he was made to resign immediately. Ever since then, power supply has nose-dived and the bills more erratic and shocking-literally and otherwise.
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