The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo has stated that whilst the transformation agenda of the Jonathan administration is yielding positive results, these same results are being defeated by saboteurs who want it to seem the President is not making any progress.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday on the activities of the saboteurs, Nebo said, We are right now battling with over 20 holes, dynamite holes in Warri-Escravos line. Can you imagine that? All done to sabotage this country, to make sure that people think President Jonathan is doing nothing, whereas, if we had gas, we would easily be generating 1,000 megawatts more than we are generating now. So, it is a painful thing”.
According to the minister, “Many people do not realize that it is not only the power sector that suffers. If there is no gas, we cannot produce fertilizer and if there is no fertilizer, farmers cannot get the agricultural input when it is needed. What is the result? Crop failure across the land.
“So, these saboteurs and oil thieves are really bleeding and causing the economy to hemorrhage. They are bleeding the Nigerian economy. The one of the gas pipeline is horrible, because they are not doing it for money they are making. It is sabotage.”
“It is unfortunate but it is human nature. There are people who never believed that anything will happen or is happening. If you go to a match and your opponent scores a goal, you can choose to accept that they have scored a goal and then try to respond to that goal or you can pretend that it was a mirage and that goal was not real.
“Meanwhile, the referee had ruled that it is a goal and all the onlookers are seeing that it is a goal. That is what is happening to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan. So much is happening,” he said.
“Government is moving, but because of the massive population of Nigeria, sometimes it is not very evident. Give us a year, give us a year and half and Nigerians will know that no government has come near to doing anything in electricity as the government of President Goodluck Jonathan has done.”
He called on the media to lead the fight against the saboteurs although he was not specific on if Government or Law Enforcement agencies knew who the actual saboteurs were and how the media is expected to gather the information.