By Political Animal.
How can you buy 33,000 liters of diesel per week to run a rice mill in the country according to one rice Miller.
How can he face his competitors in Thailand & India ,if he has to spend that much on energy alone ?Is banning the importation of rice the solution to this problem?
As oil prices rise , definitely the cost of diesel will rise and if he ever had a margin,it will shrink more and more.
Over the years I have been listening to experts on the energy sector explain some simple facts to governments on national television without success.
The challenge is that facts change nothing in Nigeria no matter how it is explained.It doesn’t make sense to those in government as soon as they are sworn in.
It is either they don’t believe anything outside their political circle or understand anything except how to strategically rig elections and keep improving on it
Another manufacturer said that he has been buying 10,000 litres of diesel every week to keep his PVC plant running.
He has tried everything possible to get connected or get his power supply from the National grid.It has been very difficult to stay afloat.
Some have suggested that industrialists run their business on solar energy.That with enough solar panels and batteries they can solve their power problems.But they forget how expensive that option would be.Even if they decide to go with that option, definitely the additional costs shall be transferred to the consumers.
Instead of fixing problems and making life easier for all of us,they are used to making things easier for a few of them in government.
Many of the rich in Nigeria created their wealth by being at the corridors of power and not through industries
How dare you create wealth outside the corridors of power?Which means breaking free,which means they cannot hold you down again.You must be a in Dreamworld.
But I know that the evil agenda of certain people to put Nigeria in their pocket is already a failed venture.
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