So any additional infrastructure investment in electricity in Africa can be expected to have significant effects on growth, private economic activity and conditions of life. In the third five-year plan (1972-1976), there were comprehensive programmes to develop airports, seaports, highways, railways and telecommunications (Ro, 2002). Such coordinated infrastructure expansion continued through the subsequent decades, particularly in the 1990s to deal with the emerging extreme infrastructure congestion. This set out the framework conditions for private sector investment in infrastructure provision (World Bank, 2009).