By obansere Damilare
Several households are in endless nightmares and corporate outfits are grating their teeth as electricity supply ebbs to an embarrassing level. As the development unfolds about two month after the new private investors took over the un-blinded forms of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) doubt that the right choices were made to exist in the minds of those who believe in the maxim that memory shows the day.
The noise of other associated health hazards and financial implications of depending on generators for power supply for 24 hours are unbearable. In a city like Lagos, Nigeria, the issue of power outrage has provoked demonstrations by youths who choose small-scale businesses have been shutdown. These youth had once carried placards with various inscriptions against the poor services of the Lagos Electricity Distribution company saying, ‘‘No power, no bill’’.
The issuance of the ‘‘crazy’’ electricity bills as people would say, is another major problem. One issue is the regulation of power and it takes another to be the electrical bills. It became known that every month without power supply by either the defunct PHCN or its successor companies, has been perennial and unnerving to customers nationwide.
The minister of power, Chinedu Nebu, at first attempted to nationalize the supply slump by attributing it to recurrent gas pipeline vandalism, reduction of water levels at hydro-electricity power plants, sabotage from disengaged PHCN workers and lack of funds to invest in the power sector by the new owners. But their excuses failed to persuade public anxiety.
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