Welcome to Our Live Blog of power supply in this Niger delta

Sitting in our little 2 bedroom flat, listening to the thrum of the generator, Mr and Mrs Okada decided to give a live account of power improvements (and declines) in our neighbourhood.

We have been inspired by the sight of 3 successive Presidents promising us more electricity. This time we intend to help by providing live data from the field. We'll innovate, gyrate, and create. Soon we hope (with your assistance) will be a luck-o meter where we can measure how much things have really improved.

Its a survey of one, but we hope you'll share your stories, that NEPA will bring light and that laughter will at least abound.

If you really like the look of this little diary you may want to try reading from the bottom to the top.

(we still haven't figured out how to get blogger to keep our first entries at the top of the page and let you read through from the beginning )
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Sunday, 16 May 2010

Yah!!!! We have a baseline !!! (and its not very big)

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So after 10 days, a Presidential visit, and a couple of surprisingly good days of electricity (you can see how much our standards have been lowered) ....

We have a baseline.

Its not very good.

We've decided it'll be the first of several measures and we're tweaking things a little.

We'll call this one ultra crap

Mr and Mrs Okada hereby promise that if NEPA regularly provide more electricity than ultra crap, then we will NOT call for the President's head on a spike

How much you might ask ?

Well in 10 days we've clocked 20 units of electricity.

That's 132 Naira worth of electricity or 13.2 Naira per day

The only thing you can buy in the shops for 13 Naira are those little sweets they sell to children (even a small pack of chewing gum is 25 Naira !)

So we're setting ultra crap at a week rather than 10 days.

If we're not seeing 20 units of electricity per week we're shopping for President IBB T Shirts (please God may no-one keep us to this). We'll be joining the militants in the creeks. Fire and brimstone time......

But hang on.

20 units is a start.

And President Goodluck has about 54 weeks to go.

C'mon Your Excellency !!

Make Mr and Mrs Okada proud !!
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