You will agree that
the issue of Power or Electricity is a very sensitive and serious issue in
Nigeria, and so, any individual proffering and championing lasting solutions
towards this cause deserves celebration, encouragement and attention from
varying positive platforms including ours.
Femi Adeyemo is a
result-oriented entrepreneur with versatile experience gained across a variety
of sectors. He is particularly skilled at coordinating the deployment and operation
of large scale infrastructure projects, ranging from Solar Energy to
Telecommunication and has provided solutions to multinational companies across
Africa, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and the Middle East before relocating
to Nigeria to set up Arnergy Solar Limited, the innovative company that provide
Nigerians with affordable and uninterrupted clean power supply. Arnergy, an acronym for Alternative Renewable
Energy, provides Nigerians with unending power supply generated from the free
energy provided by nature – the sun.
Conducting this
interview with Mr. Femi Adeyemo, the Energy Boss has we have dubbed him, was
eye opening, especially when we inquired to understand the role of Government
in providing stable electricity in the country.
Mr. Femi simply told us that the Government has no business in
generating power and this responsibility is private sector driven while the
Government only regulates. This is what
is practiced everywhere. He also adds that although the recent privatisation is
a step in the right direction, even though feedbacks from Nigerians across the
country reveal a worsened situation, the new owners need to have the will to do
the right things and be innovative. He mentions that the centralised generation
and distribution with the big power plants will not give Nigerians
uninterrupted power supply as we still have threatening issues such as gas
leakages, vandalisation et cetera, to deal with.
One will not be wrong
to assume that Mr. Femi returned to Nigeria to contribute his expertise towards
the development of the power sector in his birth country having lived across
four continents and enjoyed the possibility of uninterrupted power supply from countries
he has lived and worked in, some we even think are not as vibrant and ‘arguably
rich’ as the ‘real Nigeria’. Mr. Femi
shares with us what it takes to have stable electricity in the country, and interestingly
predicts a possibility of that happening in only two years. Judging from decades of epileptic blackouts
and the current state of affairs in the country, it will be an interesting cum
shocking albeit welcome relief if this can be achieved.
Read the full exclusive interview here: Be Your Own NEPA with Femi Adeyemo.
