Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: ||NaijaObserver|| Evil Spirit Behind Nigeria’s Darkness, Power Minister Tells S/A Investors [Can this be true? if so, is it used metaphorically?]

While it is true that religion has a place in all societies, I strongly believe that Nigeria's underdevelopment quagmire is due primarily to man-made problems, most of which are associated with the country's anachronistic and dysfunctional institutions. Most of the latter were designed by the British to rule a colony and not an independent, sovereign state of free citizens. It is time for Nigerians to demand the effective reconstitution and reconstruction of the post-colonial state to provide Nigerian-centered governance structures--those that reflect their worldview, interests, customs and values, etc., and enhance their ability to live together peacefully and engage in productive activities to maximize their collective. as well as, individual, interests.

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Evil Spirit Behind Nigeria's Darkness, Power Minister Tells S/A Investors

The Minister of State for Power, Hajiya Zainab Kuchi, yesterday told South African investors that evil spirit were behind Nigeria's darkness preventing the country from taking her pride of place in the comity of Nations.

While addressing members of the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Ruling Party, which led a team of investors to her office in Abuja, the minister said, "We must resolve to jointly exorcise the evil spirit behind this darkness and allow this nation take its pride of peace in the comity of Nations."

The minister in a statement by the Deputy Director/Head of Press of the ministry, Greyne Anosike, said, "Nigeria needs help, any nation that loves Nigeria must collaborate with it now to resolve her energy crisis...We are getting irritatingly slow."

She told the delegation that Nigeria has a structured response to her power challenges with a Roadmap it is implementing with care and diligence and asked them to study the power sector roadmap and come up with their specific area of interest, assuring that there were a lot of gaps to be filed in the sector.

The Minister said that work had reached various stages of completion in rehabilitating some of the moribund power stations littering the landscape pointing out that, the revival of the abandoned power projects was critical in lifting the sector as billions of funds had been sunk into them.

"It would amount to lavish diseconomy to embark on new project and abandon the old ones in which huge tax payers resources had been sunk," she said, and added that she was confident that the present Administration is determined to make a difference in this sector and break the jinx.

 

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