NEPA Consumer [Goodluck NEPA]: Our NEPA meter is stalled !

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 ).

Saturday, 19 June 2010

Our NEPA meter is stalled !

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OK, so our NEPA meter is stalled because there has been no light for 2 days.

The honeymoon is over

(actually it was not so much a honeymoon as a cheap affair where our expectations were raised)

This also seems to be a variation on the standard NEPA script.

Somewhere there is a manual that says:

"Give them light for a couple of days. Distribute bills. Wait small.
Do lots of disconnections (you can charge N2,000 for reconnection). Give lots of light for a couple of days
to rub in your pay up message. Resume usual non-service"

They seem to have skipped straight to the last stage.

A little clip from Nigeria's most posh newspaper gives the idea