With the despondent state of the Nigerian electricity market, stakeholders in the power sector may have found themselves in a cul-de-sac as the current administration appear clueless in the face of persistent grid collapse, poor coordination and looming strike action by electricity workers.
While the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) is currently looking at resumption of its suspended one-day nationwide strike should government fail to quickly implement its demands, electricity consumers, who spoke to The Guardian insisted that power situation was getting from bad to worse.
Experts in the sector, who also expressed displeasure over the Federal Government’s inability to take any meaningful step five years after coming on board, called for a state of emergency, which would make for strategic coordination as the government and private sector players have been engrossed in blame trading. Read more