Wednesday 3 February 2016

What Is Wrong With NEPA?


I was having a good day until my mum entered my room this morning and dropped our January electricity bill on my table and I went sour and wild.
They say Nigeria does not produce enough power to satisfy her populace - which is something we should not even be hearing in the first place - hence they have resorted to a rationing method of disbursing the rare commodity and Nigerians have not been raising placards or anything of that sort. We are a happy people you know...
Whenever a pole gets felled by a natural disaster, the affected neighbourhood gets to fix it. There's no transformer in a community or the existing one gets damaged, members of such community will have to levy themselves to secure one of their choice, according to the strength of their 'contribution' as though distribution companies were less concerned about the quality of their distribution.
What then puts peppered finger in my eye is the superfluously outrageous bills that accompany this epileptic power supply. In my place, the rationing we get is in 48hrs interval, which means you're supposed to see your bulb glow in two weeks for a month. What's more? You'd be lucky to get supplied for 24hrs during your active supposed 48hrs which means on the average, you get to see electricity in less than a week for a month and some human beings will then bill you 5k!
Fellow Nigerians, if we cannot come out and say NO to this injustice, we then are not ready for a change and the labours of our heroes past would be in vain.
Forget about the explanations and excuses. The technology involved in generating electricity is not new. We're not reinventing the wheel for Christ's sake!
In South Africa, they produce about 40,000 megawatts of electricity and the bulk of it comes from coal fired stations (bringing Enugu State to mind) and supplying Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique & Zimbabwe whereas the Giants of Africa cannot boast of 4 megawatts!
These generators we import and keep importing do not help. There are so many businesses most of us venture into that is detrimental to the common good of Nigerians. Generator importers should start thinking of something else, it would be better for them and for everyone that they bring their resources together and build a power plant. They surely would earn more in the long run and be blessed beyond their graves.
Of the many reports I've gotten from interviews, our low income earners have demonstrated willingness to pay even 10,000 naira monthly on electricity. "As far as we can see light steady, we are ready to pay any amount" they say.
Let's help ourselves.
God bless Nigeria. 

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