Open Letter to Bono, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Bob Geldolf, Nelson Mandela, Oprah and Randall Robinson

Dear Friends of Africa:

Let me first say thanks for all the great works that you have been doing for your brothers and sisters in Africa. Each of you in your own way has changed lots of lives in a very positive way be it debt relieve, AIDS programs, drought relieve, educational programs to peace programs.

Let me introduce ourselves: we are Nigerians for Super Energy. We are a grassroots campaign aimed at supporting the need for energy in Nigeria and the sub region. 35% of all black people in the world need energy to improve their daily lives. One of our goals is a Nigeria with 50,0000 Megawatts in a well planned grid system. Nigeria today on a good day is producing only 3,000+ megawatts. In January this year the power fell to 1,320 megawatts in a country of 140 million people. If you compare that with New York city with a population of 8 million people which consumed 13,400 megawatts last summer, you know the situation is bad. Senator Emodi of the Senate Committee on Power observed with sadness that the lack of electricity supply in the country had led to “loss of lives in hospitals and clinics without alternative sources of power, loss of means of livelihood by workers whose businesses are solely dependent on constant electricity supply and high cost of production by industries relying on alternative sources of power.’’

The new government has promised to propose to declare a “state of Energy emergency” in that faith, we have proposed the following solution to the government and people of Nigeria.

1.The plan would call for part of excess revenue funds to be invested in power generation and transmission.
2. All sates, Abuja and Local governments must contribute a percentage of their net worth to the projects. Land for projects will be provided by state and local governments.
3. All banks must invest a percentage of their net worth. Corporations and individual investors will be encouraged to invest in the projects with a strong push for public stock participation.
4. All companies must provide free electricity and cooking gas to local communities.
5. Alternate sources must be encouraged, At least one coal power station in Enugu with similar capacity of Tutuka, South Africa 6x609 MW. This should be part of the sale of 13 mining titles belonging to the Nigerian Mining Corporation.
6. Gas and oil pipeline should have backup points. We must be able to ship gas or oil to Lagos; after all we ship it to the ends of the world. Our pipe line should be like a Hydra (multi-head monster) that will allow for maintenance without totally shorting down the country.
7. Implement widespread adoption of CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights) and other energy saving programs. CFLs save about four times more energy compare to regular lights.
8. Last but not least, industries using gas for energy will be given gas for free or token price.

A big part of this recommendation is the total involvement of all the stakeholders. The beauty of this approach is strength in number of owners. Truly when you look at the example of 50,000MW it looks large if only the federal government is going to lead, own and support this effort. But when you divide 50,000MW by 25 (number of Banks) you get 2,000MW and when you divide 50,000MW by 37 (number of States), you get 1,375MW. When you divide it by 774 (number of Local governments), you get 64.6MW and finally when you divide by 120,000 (number of shareholder in a a large Nigerian firm) you get 0.42MW. In short those are the numbers we can be looking at when it comes to investing in this effort. In other words each bank on the average can look to participate in financing a 2,000MW project (whole or part investment).

What we need is your help in replicating what you did with the AIDS agreements model: “Agreements with Nine Companies Will Lower Prices of HIV Diagnosis and Two HIV/AIDS Medicines by 30-50 Percent for 50 Countries” This program has been excellent at saving precious lives. We believe that electricity will have the same effect at saving lives by providing things like good drinking water and hospitals with electricity. Our Friends, unlike AIDS where there were several companies to negotiate with in the electrical sector we are looking at at two main companies that can have tremendous effect in accomplishing our goal. The companies are General Electric and Siemens. The main form of help could come in form of providing turbines to the power stations in our 50,000 megawatts goal. The funding of the turbines will be the Federal, State and Local governments contribution to the plan. By pulling these purchases together and guaranteeing the companies high sales and payment, the people of Nigeria will get even more saving to met our goal. We are glad that the General Electric President of Middle East and Africa Mr. Nabil Habayeb has already visited the President of Nigeria on September 3, 2007 to discuss electrical and other infrastructure challenges in Nigeria. We hope the President of Siemens will follow soon. Lastly we hope this plan will include location of some manufacturing capacities in Nigeria to serve the rest of Africa.

Our Friends, we believe that given Nigeria's strategic role in Africa any improve in Nigeria will greatly affect the African continent. The new government in Nigeria is interested in making the lives of the Nigerians better. We believe that this agreement will help save lives and provide 140 million people a way employ themselves with no need for handouts.

God Bless,

Joseph Inyang

President - Nigerians for Super Energy

joe@nigeriansforsuperenergy.com

http://nigeriansforsuperenergy.com

Robot  # 1 | 21.09.2007 00:58

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Oghre  # 2 | 21.09.2007 10:00

Please remove BONO and Bob Geldof from your list; they are nothing more than glory hunters and publicity seekers. Charity begins at home. Bono and Bob Geldof have never assisted African immigrants in their countries when the latter are going though human rights abuses, racism and discrimination. They were busy flying around the world in the company of western media talking about fixing Africa’s problems. Bono is the most important Irish alive, the government of Ireland and immigrants waited for him to make a statement about the treatment of Africans in Ireland in the 90’s but he did not. He was seen in Addis Ababa accepting an award for good service to Africans

RAYNOSA  # 3 | 21.09.2007 13:12

@oghre Nice one you said it all about these guys making a show out of AFRICA'S problem,which they in the west have contributed to directly or indrectly to.

Wayfarer  # 4 | 23.09.2007 10:48

Oghre and Raynosa, More grease to your elbows. I am glad that more and more Africans are beginning to see these Europeans and Americans who claim to be trying to help Africa for the frauds that they are. They claim to be acting in Africa's interests yet they never try to contact Africans living in their countries to work with them in improving their countries. They never try to convince their countries to open up their markets to African countries, or to forgive the punitive loans they gave to some African countries, loans which they always deceptively refer to as "aid". If these people truly loved Africa, they would recognize the humanity and ability of Africans and engage Africans as equals, instead of treating Africans as inferior people with their never-ending slogans about "helping" Africa. As for Oprah Winfrey, She has never featured Africa in a positive light on her show. She uses style style to distance herself from Africans with her negative features on her show. She could use her show to explore the beauty of the Nigerian people, our unfailing hospitality and our work ethic, but she choose not to. She could dedicate significant portions of her show to educating Americans about countries such as Nigeria and Ghana (where her ancestors in all probability hailed from), or highlighting the scholastic achievements of the children of West African immigrants, but but she choose not to. She choose instead to warn America of the "severe danger" of 419. We do not need Oprah Winfrey to save us. Neither do we need false prophets like Bono or Geldorf.

RAYNOSA  # 5 | 24.09.2007 08:51

Dear Joseph Inyang, Let me first of all thank you for concern and step taken.My opinion is that it is only AFRICANS that can help themselves.let me give you brief profile of these people you mentioned that you think would help in your course. 1.BONO & BOB GELDOLF::Confused musicians/entertainers that,wants publicity at all cost,so the easiest way is to exploit the AFRICAN situation.(if not for LIVE AID who would have known about them)Only trying to copy the USA FOR AFRICA. 2.JIMMY CARTER & BILL CLITON::Both two ex US president aware of the effects of UNFAIR TRADE,ARMS TRADE AND CORRUPTION have in the lives of AFRICAN'S,What did they do to stop these while in office nothing only lip services. 3.OPRAH WINFREY::Another confused Black American entertainer who still believe and can not forgive AFRICANS for the part played in slave trade. 4.NELSON MANDELA::The only AFRICAN you mentioned why?The only reason the west appreciate him is they believe this is the only way to say sorry/apologise for their role in aparthied SOUTH AFRICA. 5.BILL GATES:A complete American capitalist,his only interest in AFRICA is to expand his market.(Not a bad idea though) Have you ask youself why these people apart from (MANDELA) given the media and material resources at their disposal why they have not done enough to expose the effect of UNFAIR TRADE,ARMS TRADE and CORRUPTION have in the lives of AFRICAN poeple they pretend to help. The so called AID they give end in payment for administrative purposes. Lastly how geniune are you guys

nf5kmw1  # 6 | 26.09.2007 22:59

Dear Brothers and Sisters. Visit our site nigeriansforsuperenergy.com and read what we have on our site and please read this article again. I believe that Nigerians will solve our problems. All I am asking for is a deal structure to save us money and ensure we move from the pitifully state of electricity. If you believe that these people are doing wrong things and have bad intend, I humbly disagree. If you believe they are focusing on the wrong activities, suggest new ways to address our challenges. I do believe that electricity will save more lives than all the direct medical intervention. Think of this, with electricity you can have more wells and eliminate all the water borne illnesses. Not to talk of the hospitals that will get electricity to save lives. God Bless!!! God Bless Nigeria!!!! =RAYNOSA;20913018>Dear Joseph Inyang, Let me first of all thank you for concern and step taken.My opinion is that it is only AFRICANS that can help themselves.let me give you brief profile of these people you mentioned that you think would help in your course. 1.BONO & BOB GELDOLF::Confused musicians/entertainers that,wants publicity at all cost,so the easiest way is to exploit the AFRICAN situation.(if not for LIVE AID who would have known about them)Only trying to copy the USA FOR AFRICA. 2.JIMMY CARTER & BILL CLITON::Both two ex US president aware of the effects of UNFAIR TRADE,ARMS TRADE AND CORRUPTION have in the lives of AFRICAN'S,What did they do to stop these while in office nothing only lip services. 3.OPRAH WINFREY::Another confused Black American entertainer who still believe and can not forgive AFRICANS for the part played in slave trade. 4.NELSON MANDELA::The only AFRICAN you mentioned why?The only reason the west appreciate him is they believe this is the only way to say sorry/apologise for their role in aparthied SOUTH AFRICA. 5.BILL GATES:A complete American capitalist,his only interest in AFRICA is to expand his market.(Not a bad idea though) Have you ask youself why these people apart from (MANDELA) given the media and material resources at their disposal why they have not done enough to expose the effect of UNFAIR TRADE,ARMS TRADE and CORRUPTION have in the lives of AFRICAN poeple they pretend to help. The so called AID they give end in payment for administrative purposes. Lastly how geniune are you guys

RAYNOSA  # 7 | 27.09.2007 15:09

I honestly don't believe these poeple you mention will have an impact in achieving you goals and objective. Otherwise tell me how these people will be of use to your organistion.