Yesterday it was announced in the newspapers that from yesterday on for the next seven days five gas-fired power stations will be shut down due to maintenance on the gas supply pipelines. Results will be load shedding and temporary power supply disruptions all over the country.

In fact, power is almost not available all over the country, as the remaining power stations cannot cope with the load.

As a thinking person using my brain I am asking myself why the maintenance on the gas supply pipelines cannot be carried out one by one power station, keeping the remaining 4 power stations up and running? And how many experienced personnel is available to execute this maintenance in parallell?

Anyway, these questions nobody is asking, as the news directly came from the upper ranks of government.

Instead rumours are being heard that exactly this upper clique rather would prefer to sell the gas abroad for seven days than powering up the own country. Of course there is a lot of money involved which will end up in the pockets of only a few people. Therefore the people can suffer.

Nigeria, when will you ever change?

sounds like setting priorities ... somebody will have to pay the bill.