Immediate past Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr Ernest Ndukwe has urged the Federal Government to liberalise the nation's poorly-performing power sector to solve the perennial problems besetting it and accomplish the feat of the telecommunications sector. The liberalisation of the telecoms sector in 2001 opened it up to investment opportunities leading to phenomenal growth of the sector. According to data by the NCC, the telecoms sector's contributions to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stood at 3.5 per cent as at 2009. Ndukwe, who was addressing a section of the ICT Publishers Alliance who paid a courtesy call on him ahead of A Decade of GSM forum slated for August, noted that the telecoms sector liberalisation was one of the areas the government got its bearings right; urging it to demonstrate same willpower in the power sector. He said: "The success of the telecoms sector can be anchored on a number of factors including liberalisation, independence of the NCC, non-interference by government in the operations of the commission and willpower by government to implement a private sector-led telecoms industry. "Liberalisation of that sector was one of the areas the government got its bearings right; we are enjoying the fruits of that singular act today. I think government should demonstrate the same willpower in the power sector to completely turn that sector around.
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