NEWSLETTER.
A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church Kpeyegyi Abuja Nigeria. {Vol. 14. NO 607 8th st June 2025} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). PRAY & FAST EVERY WEDNESDAY TO STOP BLOODSHED IN NIGERIA!
DEAD INSTITUTIONS AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN NIGERIA!
In those good old days of pre-independence into the years before the military forceful seizure of democratic governance in January 1966, the Electric Corporation of Nigeria (ECN), and the Niger Dam Authority (NDA), jointly displayed professional capabilities in service delivery.
Electric poles were sunk on road and street sides, lanes and culs-de-sac in anticipation of supplying electricity to commercial, industrial or residential structures on demand.
In all that period of the First Republic Administration of President and Prime Minister Nnamdi Azikiwe and Tafawa Balewa respectively, Nigerians had constant electricity supply. We are told that the World Bank foreign loan of USD$82 million collected by Nigeria during that period was dispensed to execute the KAINJI DAM PROJECT that still supplies hydro electric power to the national grid to date.
In 1964, Tafawa Balewa, the then Prime Minister of Nigeria, secured a World Bank loan of $82 million to finance the construction of the Kainji Dam. This dam was a key component of Nigeria’s “most ambitious project” and was intended to generate 760 megawatts of electricity and spur economic development.
The loan, guaranteed by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was for a term of 31 years, including a two-year grace period, with an interest rate of 6-1/2%.
The Kainji Dam project aimed to increase Nigeria’s electricity generation and support economic growth through improved transportation and irrigation.
The loan was specifically for the foreign exchange component of the dam’s construction, with the Nigerian government covering local currency requirements.
The Kainji Dam project was a large-scale infrastructure initiative intended to modernize Nigeria’s power sector and support economic development.
In 1972, the ECN established in 1952 and NDA in 1962, were merged to become the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), which became the major electricity firm in Nigeria.
NDA was responsible for building and maintaining dams along the Niger and Kaduna rivers.
PORTABLE WATER SUPPLY AT INDEPENDENCE.
Similarly, the Water Corporation in the 1960s in Nigeria was characterized by early industrial water projects aimed at improving water supply and sanitation. The first water corporation in the Western Region was established in 1966. Prior to that, initiatives like the Iju Waterworks were in place, supplying water to Lagos and its suburbs.
After the creation of Lagos State in 1967, the responsibility for the Iju Waterworks was transferred to the State. Potable water was given priority attention across the country and public taps flowed freely.
SIXTY – FIVE YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE BOTH ELECTRICITY AND WATER SUPPLY HAVE GONE COMATOSE!
Breaking News!
OUTRAGEOUS NGN10 BILLION NAIRA SOLAR POWER BUDGET FOR TINUBU’S ASO ROCK RESIDENCE! - 21st APRIL 2025.
In the aftermath of the spiraling inflationary effects on goods and services due to President Tinubu’s arbitrary decision to change Nigeria’s economic narrative two years on, electricity and water supply across the nation have relapsed into virtually non-existent services resulting into the Abuja State House being allocated the sum of N10bn in the 2025 approved budget for the installation of a solar mini-grid at the Presidential Villa!
Consecutive administrations from the military to date downgraded these vital basic institutional necessities to good governance due to massive corruption at all levels of annual budgeting.
Public electricity supply became unreliable and the exorbitant cost at all levels of supply to households, industries and government institutions became epileptic.
Outside of the Kainji Dam, Nigeria cannot boast of reliable River Dams that can fulfill both hydro electrical and agricultural needs of the massive population of about 250 million Nigerians.
The resort to solar energy should reduce dependence on the national grid and limit the impact of tariff hikes on government finances according to speculators.
Prior to Tinubu’s Administration electricity costs was at the whims and caprices of the management boards of at the various tiers until the policy somersault on removal of fuel subsidy etc, made the insignificant national 40 megawatts of supply most inappropriate!
And in spite of the two -year-old Administration’s efforts at resolving the imbroglio through segmented structure of CATEGORIZED BANDS – A, B, and C, electricity supply remained inadequate due to incessant breakdown of the NATIONAL GRID on monthly basis!
BETTER LIFE IS ONLY FOR NIGERIAN POLITICIANS NOT THE MASSES!
While the procurement of electric poles and relevant wires are pre-requisites for electricity installation, only politicians at all levels enjoy the facilities though they regularly defaulted on payments while the masses must procure those requisites plus TRANSFORMERS when they break down!
In respect of supply of PORTABLE WATER to masses, similar attitudes always prevailed unlike in the early independence period when free public taps existed on every street for those who could not afford to connect to the system.
NOW 65 years down the line – the masses have resorted to acquisition of Solar Energy and sinking of Water Bore Holes to meet their basic democratic dividends which Federal/State Governments had deliberately ignored!
AND the Federal Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology now assert that solar panels on roof tops could ignite fire if not properly fixed while some legislators also posit that massive sinking of water bore holes could precipitate earthquakes!
Although they had no such evidences to prove their claims, it was obvious they had to defend institutional failures under the guise of fabricated fatalities in order to perpetually keep the downtrodden masses from basic necessities of life which they had woefully failed to provide!
And in spite of the change of guards from civilians to military and back to civilians, 1966-1999, institutionally-generated electricity and portable water supplies were strictly for the elites and politicians!
BAYO ONANUGA DEFENDS THE HUMONGOUS AMOUNT FOR ASO ROCK SOLAR!
Presidency has defended its plan to spend N10 billion on a solar mini-grid at the Presidential Villa, citing the example of the United States White House, which has adopted similar energy practices.
In a post on his verified X account on Tuesday, Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser (Information and Strategy) to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, described the initiative as a global best practice, which plans to ban importation of Solar Panels!
It was revealed that the said amount was smuggled into the budget unnoticed an admission that government’s power sector was a total failure!
It was also disclosed that the Solar Project move was to boost local manufacturing and reduce the country’s reliance on imports and promote local manufacturing according to Minister of Science, Innovation, and Technology, who announced the plan in late March 2025.
While some reports indicate a potential ban, others suggest the government is not currently planning to implement it.
AND WHEREAS IT IS BETTER TO BUILD STRONG INSTITUTIONS THAN AN OLIGARCHY!
The high-lighted institutions in charge of electricity and water are mere drops in the ocean! The rot is cancerous and there is virtually no government enterprise that is healthy – not even the custodians of security of lives and property nor the Judiciary!
Corruption in governance had been the albatross – the bone of contention - from independence when the khaki boys showed the red card to politicians and further compounded the absurdity for almost 30 years!
Outside of the distinguished founding fathers – Sir Ahmadu Bello, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief Anthony Enahoro, there is virtually no Nigerian Politician that is CORRUPTION -FREE!
And yet disillusioned MULTI-DIMENSIONALLY POVERTY- STRICKEN CITIZENS cluster around the accursed politicians to vote them into office over and over and in process turned them into demonic oligarchy whose orders must be obeyed!
ARE RIGHTEOUS CITIZENS SURPRISED THAT ALL OPPOSITION POLITICIANS NOW STAND ON THE ESTABLISHED CORRUPTION-RIDDEN MANDATE OF MR. PRESIDENT, ALHAJI BOLA AHMED TINUBU?
Unicameral Parliamentary System of Government is the solution to this presidential madness! Patriotic Citizens should unite to unseat all the current political class as presently constituted through the ballot box in 2027 and give fresh hope to the downtrodden!
The clock is ticking…the time of redemption is NOW!
[EXPECT A PRIME MINISTER IN NIGERIA NOW!]
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