Nigeria solves electricity
problem by giving a
generator to each
household

Abuja - The joke goes that Nigerian men are
the most romantic men in the world -
because they always have dinner by candle
light. But as jokes go, this one is a play on
the fact that the Giant of Africa subjects her
citizens to perpetual darkness due to the
Nation's legendary epileptic power
generation.

Well, those days of eating dinner by candle
light are now over, thanks to the Federal
government's announcement that every
household in the nation will be given a
generator to tackle the electricity problem
once and for all.

This news follows announcement of billions
of Naira allocated in the 2011 budget for
purchase of generators for the Nations
Embassies.
Shocked Nigerians reacted by questioning
the rationale behind buying generators for
use in countries like France, China, and the
USA where power outages are as rare as
Paris Hilton farting, but the government
soon announced that a typo in the budget
was responsible for what looked like a
colossal waste of public funds.

According to the government, the
budgetary allocation for generators is not
meant for the nation's embassies, but for
every home in the country. This, it seems, is
the government's answer to the problem of
power generation. According to a source in
the presidency, "When everyone has a
generator, we will close down NEPA (PHCN)
and replace it with GDA; Generator
Distribution Authority."

A spokesperson for an opposition party has
since condemned the generator-for-
everyone policy as a ploy to win votes in
the April 2011 elections.

According to him, Nigerians should be
vigilante and take the news with more than
a pinch of salt because, as he said, "They are
only deceiving people so that they will vote
for them. The only party that can solve
electricity problem is our party. Our
chairman is the biggest importer of
generators, so only he can guarantee that
every Nigerian will get one generator each."

He further said: "I am sure that the
generators they are buying are fake or
tokunbo, or those small, small, I-better-pass-
my-neighbour things. Our party chairman
only imports original British Made Perkins
generators from china! He is their sole
distributor, so only he can import best
quality generators for every Nigerian."

Ordinary Nigerians have received the news
with mixed feelings. While some citizens
have praised the national government
thinking outside the box, others - who have
read too much book - are talking about
noise pollution, inflationary pressure on
price of fuel, and something they call the
ozone layer.


Others seem to have adopted the wait and
see mentality, and as one Mr Dantin Tomasi
said: "Ol' boy, na like so they promise us
during 50th Anniversary say they go bake
the biggest cake in the word. You, you see
cake?"

Jowo Mabinu, for wazobiareport.com


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my mechanic and i finally got the gen running last nite but when morning came and time to switch off, another wahala com dey, gen no gree off! Despite all our best efforts to turn back the key. It finally did tho when a smart guy pulled on some mechanical thingy on the body.

For anyone who still doesn't realize it, the post is a joke.