Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog. Living in a country like Nigeria, with the name Giant of Africa, one would actually think we have it all sorted out, and constant power supply would be the least of our problems, but the truth is that it is currently one of our major problems. All we have is the name, but the country is actually nothing to write home about, just a large population and a big land mass, while African countries with smaller populations and smaller land masses are doing way better than us and developing even faster than the great giant of Africa.
The availability of power supply is what helps to make life comfortable and a lot more conducive for us as humans; sometimes the weather becomes extremely hot and uncomfortable, and the only way to bring comfort is power supply so we can power and run appliances like the fan and air conditioner to help make us a bit comfortable as well as feel better.
My lecturer would always say that the "quality of life in any country or area is directly proportional to the energy consumed within the country or area; this simply means if there is low energy consumption, then the quality of life is low." Now picture a country where we cannot enjoy 5 hours of constant power supply, and the day we manage to get at least two hours of constant power supply, our power-holding company expects us to give them accolades and clap for them. Judging by my lecturer's saying, we can actually draw to a conclusion that the quality of life within Nigeria is very low and not even up to standards.
They make constant power supply look like it's luxury; a government official said on the news that the masses cannot afford constant power supply, and my question remains: was power supply supposed to be a luxury, or do those in power just like it when they frustrate the masses? The annoying part is how we have all adapted and accepted that getting power supply is actually a privilege and not our right as citizens; whenever they want and wish to, they supply us power for a few hours, and at the end of the month, they bring bills worth thousands of naira for power we did not consume or even make use of.
We all know deep within us that the amount of money we spend on power supply bills is not in any way equivalent to the amount of power they supply to us, but we go ahead and pay it anyway since we have been made to believe it is a privilege, and since we want to continue to enjoy that privilege, we have to stay loyal. Things even got worse with the whole band thing (Band A, Band B), where Band A comprises high-ranked people, and they get to enjoy more power supply than the rest of the band, but we all live in the same country and claim to have equal rights.
This post was supposed to be published a lot earlier, but a lack of power supply for the past five days and not having the money to power my generator stopped that from happening. We finally had power supply for an hour, and I managed to publish it. Now who knows when next we would have power supply? We adopted different ways to help keep our gadgets charged; either you buy gasoline and run your generator, you give it to a neighbor who has his generator on, or you take it out to shops that charge phones and gadgets for money, which is quite risky because you can hear stories later that either your phone is missing or your charger is missing, or your charger is no longer functional, and in a worse case scenario, both your phone and charger will be missing.
This is my entry for the #inleomonthly #Aprilinleo day 4 prompt "What important thing has procrastination cost you?"