THE move by the Jonathan administration to review the much-orchestrated “Power Sector Roadmap”, barely two years after it was launched with fanfare, but without yet any significant achievement is confounding. It smacks of lack of a solid framework for the realization of stable power supply in the country. There can be no break from the present electricity predicament when policies made today are changed tomorrow without cogent reasons. The administration should be consistent and focused in the pursuit of its power sector programme. That is the only way to make progress.
Apart from the fact that the former Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji suddenly resigned without implementing the roadmap he midwifed, and a new one appointed in the person of Professor Chinedu Nebo, there is no major reason for the power roadmap to be reviewed now. The appointment of Mr. Beks Dogogo-Jack to head the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP), a position formerly held by Nnaji is not enough reason to tinker with what looked like an ambitious plan.
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