Electricity for Nigerians 

Today, it is crystal clear that our government has failed the masses woefully, leaving our economy in a drastic state. The different sector of the economy has suffered greatly, inflation has become the order of the day; subsidy has embraced the state, with no hope of leaving anytime. Yet they go about with the hash tag, “vote for us, for a better tomorrow.”

They forget the fact that the tomorrow we prayed for yesterday is here today. One major problem faced in Nigeria today is electricity. Since the introduction of electricity in Nigeria, that segment of the economy has failed in all ramifications.

Electricity is meant to solve our problems, not create more problems for us. But in Nigeria, the reverse is the case, electricity creates more problems; the hike in the price of bills being allocated to citizens can make an average Nigeria turn a pauper overnight.

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Irrespective of this hike in electricity price, the citizens barely have access to light; they stay in total darkness, leaving them to the mercy of their faith. If you provide constant electricity in Nigeria, you are virtually solving 75 per cent of our problems. To an extent this is undeniably true, because with constant light, it helps promote the state and its affairs.

Lots of problems will be solved drastically once there is constant electricity in Nigeria. The advent of constant electricity will solve the problem of endemic unemployment; it will instigate pragmatic new innovation, encourage investors to strive in business for economic growth, elicit industrialisation and make Nigeria a producing and progressing nation.

It seems the present day government has turned deaf ears to the pleas and cries of her citizens, only God can save the situation of Nigeria. Unfortunately, God cannot leave his throne to save us; we must take some steps and apply some theories. I’m encouraging the government of the day to give each geo-political zone the autonomy to generate their electricity if the load is too much on the federal government to handle.

Tunde Eso 

Osun State.