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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Friday, 25 June 2010

Missing in Action (MIA)

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Yes, a little guilt again over not posting for a few days.

Mr Okada is on the road.

Madam Okada reports that NEPA is also seemingly MIA.

She's not seen evidence of them in 3 days (but the neighbours and the squatter mention brief daytime appearances).

A friendly face in Abuja has suggested that we all think of NEPA the wrong way.

Its not a power supplier - we mostly get our electricity from elsewhere and feel lucky when there is 'light'.

In fact, NEPA is a  rickety standby generator that kicks into action at  unpredictable times and
then slips back into its slumber.

Its a handy image - and it conjures up ideas of looking elsewhere for solutions to the power failures in the land.

NEPA workers beware- here lies the path of Nitel.

If you are so determined not to change your ways (and I admit many of your problems stem from your money stealing political masters) then your company will die a silent and unlamented death.

At this stage one could go into a long rant about how a company with a license to print money (they had the national network, an undersea fibre optic cable and a mobile phone license) can turn all that opportunity into a complete and utter flop.

NEPA and Nitel might at least go in the Guinness Book of Records  as truly world class under-performers.

But then if i wrote on that I would be late for work

Enjoy the weekend
(and the football without the spectacular  underperformers on the field - Bye bye France, Italy,  and the Super Eagles)
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