For millions of Nigerians living in the country, the recent World Bank report that ranked Nigeria as “the second worst country with high electricity access deficit” is no surprise at all. Rather the report is a corroboration of just one aspect of the traumatic experience of Nigerians in virtually every aspect of their lives as a result of decades of poor, unimaginative and incompetent leadership.
According to the World Bank report, of the worst 20 countries in the world with poor access to electricity, Nigeria comes second only to India which has a population of 306.2 million people no access to electricity as against Nigeria’s 82.4 million Nigerians who lack access to electricity. This, by implication, means that Nigeria’s electricity crisis is in far worse shape than in less endowed African countries such as Ethiopia, Congo DR, Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Madagascar and Malawi, just to mention a few of the countries examined in the survey.
0 comments:
Post a Comment