Sam Amadi
Sam Amadi is a Nigerian legal scholar, public policy expert, political economist, and democracy advocate. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) from 2010 to 2015. He holds degrees in law and public policy, including graduate studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has also been a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard and is the Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts. His scholarship focuses on constitutional democracy, governance, regulation, electricity-sector reform, political economy, and institutional development. He has authored several books and policy papers, including Perpetuating Poverty, Consolidating Powerlessness: Oil and the Niger Delta (2005), Migration, Globalization and Human Rights (2009), and Enhanced Power Supply: State Investment, Tariff, and Distributed Generation (2011)
Quotes
[edit]- “I think the interest is because there’s no closure, no official closure, no clear statements".
- “But the real question is, why don’t we have official autography, official statements, official closure to issues, especially about a very high level national event?”
- “There should be some records, some videos, something somewhere in Aso Rock that could tell us exactly what happened to our president.”
- “If you don’t have a clear, nonpartisan institution, whose job is simply to record history, then you continue to have these kinds of problems.”
- “You need to know how policies were driven and failed, you need to know so that tomorrow you can create policies that can borrow from the wisdom of this failure.”
- “Yes, his views might be contentious, might be biased, might be contentious, as the case might be. But again, this is more to put at the history there.”
