The power supply in my area is worse, I don't know if there's any other name I can use to qualify how bad it is, there ate times light will just come and we will shout and be happy, when we are about charging our phones or putting on the electric cooker or even bringing IIT your cloth to iron, then they will just take it back, just as if they have a CCTV installed in your apartment waiting to see you do something, this has been my story for as long as I can remember. When I was younger, I used to think PHCN(Power Holding Company Of Nigeria) had some sort of personal issues against my street, it was later I realized it wasn’t just my street, that is how it is in most part of the country.
I always plan my entire routine around whether there’s light or not. If I wake up and see the fan spinning, I wait for some minute to check if its not a prank, if it still stays, I rush to charge everything.... phone, power bank, rechargeable lamp, fan snd everything chargeable. I quickly iron my clothes, including those I might not be wearing in the next one week, I do it all, because tomorrow or in the next one week, light won't even flash. It’s funny how we’ve all adjusted our lives to this, and we've accepted it as if it's normal. We all have almost turned into something else, guessing when or which week light will come and when it won't...there's light throughout yesterday, then for the next two, three days they won't bring it.. Thata who we are now.
The noise of generators is now part of us. If there’s a party on your street, you hear music and generator roaring in harmony. If there's an important zoom meeting, then just know the noise of generators will be underground also, except for those who could afford solar power also, which is also very costly. The sad part is that it shouldn't be this way. It’s not a luxury to have light, it’s a basic necessity, yet we treat it like it’s gold, like we are not worth it, like they are only being good to us. THe way we shout “Up nepa!” with so much excitement will force you to ask, of its cause of the light or something else happend.
Well, we can’t continue like this. Nigeria had the potential for very good and stable power supply, theres sun everyday, why is solar now so scarse, there's wind, theres water and a while lot of things, then why ate we still struggling with stable power supply, its just that we lack good leadership and maintainance. The system had been designed in a way that it just fail, because its from that failure that some are benefiting from, and nobody wants fix what is keeping their purse filled.
Yet, there's still hope. We can change this narrative, change is constant change is possible. The government should maybe invest in alternative energy, also, the government or private institutions should invest in young minds and fund them to create smart energy solutions, corruption be punished and not promoted. We should treat good power supply the way it should be, we don't have to be shouting "up nepa", light should be so normal that darkness will feel strange to us. And until all these, then we keep it up with the way we are doing it, hoping for a good and brighter future with good power supply.
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Thanks a lot for this.