By Jimitota Onoyume
PORT HARCOURT—Regional Transmission Manager of Power Holding Company of Nigeria in Port Harcourt, Mr. Luis. E. Eromosele, has identified corruption as one of the major factors that have made it impossible for PHCN to provide the nation with uninterrupted and regular power supply.
According to him, “the effect of corruption in socio-economic life of Nigeria is seen in the decay of almost all the social and economic infrastructure, political instability and degraded human resources.
Engineer Eromosele, who spoke in Port Harcourt yesterday during the inauguration of the Port Harcourt anti corruption committee of the PHCN, regretted the branding of the PHCN by some outfits in the country as one of the most corrupt public institutions in the country.
He, however, said the institution had taken actions to redress this image with the setting up of an anti-corruption and transparency unit within its fold.
According to him, “the effect of corruption in socio-economic life of Nigeria is seen in the decay of almost all the social and economic infrastructure, political instability and degraded human resources. This has manifested in our inability to give a steady uninterrupted and reliable power supply.
“We must not fail to realize the serious implication of the ranking of our company as one of the most conspicuously corrupt enterprise in Nigeria. The need to change this public perception of the company is therefore imperative.
The crusade being lunched here in Port Harcourt is a house cleaning exercise aimed at exposing corrupt practices and corrupt staff”
He described the birth of the anti-corruption agency within the power sector of the country as an in-house cleansing exercise aimed at exposing corrupt practices and bad eggs, adding that staff should key into the new drive.
In his remark, the Managing Director, Power Holding Company of Nigeria, who was represented by Mr. Lysian Pepple, said the firm had become zero tolerant to corruption.
The anti corruption committee, he noted, would operate in all the distribution and transmission/ generation units of the firm round the country.
The Managing Director explained that the reform was mainly to ensure proper repositioning of all sectors of the power industry so that they could be well alive to their duties.
The bane of PHCN or “ECN” is corruption. Lack of accountability for crying out loud!!! Its has become a melting pot or point for politiicians to share their loot under the pretense of getting power generated. The best next thing for PHCN or “ECN” to do is to close down completely and then inform NIGERIANS that they can source their power wherever they wish. Then the nation will know that we do not hope for electricity indefinitely. Nigerians are cowards!!!!!!!!
The power sector in nigeria (meaning PHCN) will never work as far as our dearly beloved warlords, big men and companies want to sell generating sets. In dry season PHCN tells us that river niger is low. In rainy season, they tell us power stations got flooded, poles fell. High-tension cables disappear mysteriously.
why should a country like nigeria be using obsolete twentieth century technology (water turbines) when we have abundantly unwanted solar energy? When we can power our factories with wind farms?
no matter how much we pump into PHCN, that company is doomed to fail. Let us look at gas turbines, solar inverters, windmills and whatever… That’ll give the oil-companies a run for their money
The power sector in nigeria (meaning PHCN) will never work as far as our dearly beloved warlords, big men and companies want to sell generating sets. In dry season PHCN tells us that river niger is low. In rainy season, they tell us power stations got flooded, poles fell. High-tension cables disappear mysteriously.
why should a country like nigeria be using twentieth century technology (water turbines) when we have abundantly unwanted solar technology? When we can power our factories with wind farms?
no matter how much we pump into PHCN, that company is doomed to fail. Let us look at gas turbines, solar inverters, windmills and whatever… That’ll give the oil-companies a run for their money
It is obvious that there is no accountability in Nigeria both in public and private institutions. As everyone knows, without accountability there is no motivation to comply with laws including the anti-corruption programs. Nigeria government can barely function at 1 percent of its capacity. How these government officials are able to present themselves as representative of a government that can barely function at 1 percent is criminal to say the least. The executive branch is absent and corrupt. A country with so many blessings but with no courage on what to do it
One of if not the major problem PHCN is politicization of the sector by the last government. People that knows next to nothing just because they are party loyalist were in to distribute and share money. What is needed in the sector is total cleansing.