What Next to Privatisation? Governance Options for Sustainable Power Delivery in Nigeria
Nigerias effort since the return to democratic rule in 1999 to privatize her power sector was finally concluded in 2013 with the complete privatisation of succeeding companies to her electricity parastatal unbundled into 11 Distribution, 6 Generation Companies, and, a Transmission Company, which ownership is still retained by the government though its management is outsourced.Unfortunately, the conclusion of this programme rather than usher in an era of improvement, witnessed a more distressing scenario in the sector such as rising cost of electricity charges and increasing power outages and service decline.Curiously enough, the government has also been making substantial financial commitment to the sector which many expected should be over with the successful privatisation.The scenario intuitively triggers the usual debate that privatisation and other liberalization approaches do not lead to the targeted efficiency gains in most developing countries especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).The study joins scholarship in interrogating policy options towards resolving the problem of inefficient delivery of public goods and services in the aftermath of privatisation.The study advocates Third Party Government (TPG) as a necessary post-privatisation policy option especially for sub-Saharan African countries where privatisation has consistently been shown to produce more negative than positive results.The paper argues that privatisation should not be seen as a one-off conclusive activity but rather a continuing process of collaboration available to governments and the private sector towards improved and sustainable service delivery.The paper is anchored on the administrative perspective of privatisation which posits that privatisation should aim at improving administrative and managerial processes rather than mere economic goals of absolving the government of its responsibilities.The study claims that most instances of failed privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa have to do with failure in post-privatisation mutual engagement of the government and the new private sector owners.
Privatisation Third party government Sustainable utility provisioning Long term Perspective in public programmes
Okey Marcellus Ikeanyibe
Department of Public Administration Faculty of the Social Sciences University of Nigeria Nsukka,Nigeria
国际会议
2015 International Conference on Public Administration (11 th)2015(第十一届)公共管理国际会议
印度尼西亚
英文
91-107
2015-12-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）