Up Nepa!!

Up Nepa!! This is a phrase which is fast becoming a cliché in Nigeria. I can proudly beat my chest to say that there is no Nigerian that cannot pronounce these two words correctly, even if he cannot spell his name. In fact, as soon as a baby can pronounce his first word, he can pronounce these words. Abii I dey lie? If I lie, make una tell me o!
But seriously, Nepa (or is it PHCN now) is one of the federal government public corporations that has continually taken Nigerians for a ride. Dem dey use us play. It got to a time that my area used to receive power once a week (on Sunday nights) for one hour only. That was it. One hour only and you had to wait for next Sunday. The situation improved only when the whole of satellite town decided to stop paying their bills (which they had doubled).
As if that wasn’t enough, even last week, when the conditions had seemingly improved, we had to put on the gen four times due to the fact that these people kept interrupting the power at 10 minute intervals. Because of this, I had to use thirty minutes to finish ironing one t-shirt. Can you imagine?? It then makes me wonder, what do they do with the bills that we pay? Why should I even bother paying my bills??
This goes to show that these people are very much undisciplined. Seriously. Now, I was reading a book about revolutions and stuff, that is when people rise up against the government and change shit before it got out of hand. These revolts are usually bloody and sacrifices are made but overtime, the people are better for it. We can start from somewhere. At least Nepa. Me, I’m tired of being overridden. We can’t take this shit any longer. We can do it. Abii una dey fear??
Even our president said that we spend three times the amount of money that would be used to guarantee power generation on running our diesel generators. He didn’t even talk about the ones powered by petroleum. Overtime, generators have become the source of power supply, and Nepa is on standby. Depend on them for anything, and I promise, you will be utterly disappointed. The situation is worrisome. And yet, nothing is been done about it. We still keep suffering. And these people have kept soliciting our votes in 2011. Sha, what is my own business? I dey vote??
The day Nepa would sit up is when every car with a Nepa plate number is burned down, and every official is kidnapped and tortured. Sorry I’m sounding like this, but this is the only practical solution. Then Nepa officials won’t even say their identity not to talk of coming to give you bills or cut your light. Instead, they would be busy telling the government to increase power generation, so that they could supply more power. That would be a good way to keep them busy with the right stuff.
It is worth a try isn’t it? Think about it…