The country’s
power problem persists because past administrations failed to integrate
electricity generation and distribution into Nigeria’s long-term
development plan, an energy law expert, Mr Soji Awogbade, said, Tuesday.
He
said the process by which power is generated was fully integrated that
merely buying turbines or sacking power ministers will not solve the
problem “because no minister can manufacture turbines.
“If
you put turbines, you generate power. If there are no transmission
grids, you’re dead. If both exist and there’s no gas or fuel to power
the plants, it’s the same story,” he said.
Awogbade,
a partner with the law firm of Aelex, spoke Tuesday, in Lagos on the
law firm’s 9th Annual Lecture, slated for tomorrow at the AGIP Hall,
Muson Centre, Lagos, with the theme In God’s name: Politics, Religion
and Economic Development.
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