Fourteen months after his sudden exit from
President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet, ex-Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji,
on Friday opened up on the “powerful interests” he claimed forced him out of
office.
Nnaji accused unnamed generator and diesel
suppliers as well as sundry government contractors in the power sector of being
behind his sudden resignation from office.
Nnaji, who is the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Geometric Power Limited, however, took glory for the
successful handover of the successor companies of the Power Holding Company of
Nigeria which took place on Friday.
The former minister spoke at Bells University
of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, where he delivered the institution’s 5th
Convocation Lecture entitled: “Towards a Sustainable Value System for Economic
Growth.”
He said the conclusion of the privatisation
of the power sector would not have been possible without the initiatives he
introduced and solid foundation he built right from the time he was Special
adviser to the President on Power and later minister of power.
He said he was particularly happy that
despite the fact that the people behind his travails moved to “hack me down”
the Power Sector Reform Roadmap he initiated became a success story.
Nnaji said, “When I came in as Special
Adviser on Power to the President and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force
on Power, I said we should take this power issue as an act of parliament and
implement it to the letter.
“When you hear of the Power Sector Reform
Road Map, it is the plan for the implementation of a law for the reform of the
power sector and we did not go outside of that as we pursued it vigorously and
boosted investor confidence.
“I’m pleased that today (Friday) is the
physical handover of all the generation and distribution companies to private
sector. I’m very proud of this rigorous plan and discipline and the follow
through.
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