By Admin
Former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Power, Mr. Beks Dagogo-Jack, has criticised Nigeria’s electricity sector reforms, saying the country lacks a clear roadmap and relies on what he described as “flowery speeches” instead of concrete plans.
Speaking on ARISE News following another national grid collapse, Dagogo-Jack said Nigeria’s power reform, which began over a decade ago, has lost direction due to the absence of timelines, targets, and accountability.
He noted that successive administrations failed to sustain reform momentum, making it difficult to track progress or hold officials responsible.
He added that despite multiple power ministers over the years, none has presented a comprehensive reform package to Nigerians, stressing that broad policy statements without action plans cannot fix the sector.
Dagogo-Jack also identified liquidity challenges, unpaid debts to power generation companies, poor remittances by distribution companies, and energy theft as major setbacks, warning that repeated grid collapses reflect regulatory and institutional failure.
On the political crisis in Rivers State, he described it as economically damaging and symptomatic of deeper governance and accountability problems, cautioning that continued instability threatens Nigeria’s democratic and economic future.
