I was having a chat with a friend of mine working at an Electricity Distribution Company in the Southern Part of Nigeria and asking of his opinion on the lingering power supply problem. You know what he did?

He first laughed and said "we cant kill ourselves. The government seem not to be serious about making things work".

I probed further and noticed that the financial situation of the country has snuffed life out of every sector including power distribution.

See the chain reaction: Government fail to pay workers salary. Government workers go broke. Electricity bills cant be paid by starving government workers. And since the DISCOS are purely private sector driven, they want money. They want profit. This cannot be realized with few persons paying their bills.

So, for those under the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED), do not expect power until they are confident, you can pay your bills.

This is the sorry situation we have found ourselves.

Phew!. My battery is already 10% already so I have to shut down.

Culled from: http://solutionnaija..com.ng/2016/04/is-this-new-face-of-electricity.html?m=1