Dear colleagues

This is to inform you of a planned protest against the services of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (alias NEPA) billed for 15 March 2006.

The plan is for us all to come out in ALL BLACK ATTIRE on WEDNESDAY 15 MARCH 2006 to express our dissatisfaction with the services of PHCN and the rude and arbitrary attitude of their staff. We are to go about our duties on that day but WEAR ALL BLACK ATTIRE.

Nigerians are dying from exhaust fumes of generators; we are all becoming nervous wrecks from lack of good sleep at night due to the cacophony of noise from generators in all our neighbourhoods. We have had enough and we demand that the authorities do something immediate about this.

Even if you live in the few privileged neighbourhoods where you can afford sound proof generators please identify with the suffering millions of Nigerians who cannot afford a generator and yet have to put up in their hot and humid rooms/shacks and lie awake all night because of the noise of generators in their neighbourhoods.

We cannot even begin to quantify the economic loss that is brought about by PHCN's non performance. The extra cost of fuelling generators, employees who
have to go to work after a restless and noisy night and cannot perform optimally, buildings and equipment which have been burnt or destroyed by power fluctuations,

The Managing Director of PHCN should resign as he has shown total incapability
to manage the affairs of the company for productivity.

Wednesday 15 March is tagged BLACK DAY to bemoan PHCN
(NEPA). It is only the
first in a planned series of protests against the
dismal service (or lack of
it) that we get from PHCN and their extortionist habit
of giving fixed bills
every month whether they supply light or not. PHCN
revenue must be commensurate
with services rendered to the people.

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!!!!.

Please forward this mail to all your friends in
Nigeria.

Signed

Fed up with PHCN vanguard

NB: if you have had any frustrating interaction with PHCN officials; demands for bribes and request for contributions to buy transformers , you could forward the information and names of the concerned officials to fedupwithphcn@yahoo.co.uk we shall circulate it and endeavour to send it to PHCN head office and copy EFCC.

OLAYIOYE YETUNDE (MRS)
Executive Assistant to the Chairman
West African Portland Cement Plc
Elephant House,
Alausa, Ikeja
Tel Nos: D/L 01-7730748
Mobile: 01-803-33283481


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I think it's commendable that you are taking action in this way, though I am concerned because protests alone cannot build power stations or manufacture the gas that PHCN says is scarce because of the actions of the Niger Delta boys.

Very important: Please make sure that you inform the Lagos police about this protest and they give you permission, or else the debacle that occured in which teargas was used on the protesting mothers of the children in the Sosoliso aircraft. Safety first!