It was a sunny afternoon and I was strolling down this particular road to get the name of the street I was going to but suddenly a loud noise came from no where like the sound of a train passing by, with some people running helter and skelter and I was tempted to take my heels as well and use a 4x100m race but I stopped because of the statement I heard them shouting while running around which was "UP NEPA!!!!!" AS HOW NOW??? It was later I knew that it's been ages they had electricity supply in that community and then I realized that the noise and rejoicing was needed and was necessary truly.
Electricity in my dear country has turned to be like an arrival of thieves at midnight that shocks everyone. We tend to live in darkness more than light and we have so much adjusted and adapted to this system with no complaints. What could our complaints actually do in the ears that has been chopped off like people would say, lol.
The annoying part is the crazy bill that would still be brought before the end of the month for a month you've not even end yet (This was not like that before based on my observation, it was supposed to be bill for the past month in a new month)
Some house rents are extremely and outrageously increased based on the fact that it's in a location where more priority of power supply is been placed and houses nearby gets to enjoy from this opportunity.
I remember an apartment I was taken to inspect and I was been told that aside the high rent because the apartment is in a good location, I have to pay an extra 100k for electricity supply aside the normal service charge that covers every payment in the house. Like why and how? 100k for electricity that's supposed to be my birthright lol. It is what it is.
Aside the places with special treatment and priorities of electricity supply, electricity has become so bad that invention of solar is now so rampant and most people no longer care if the light is been put off for days. It is even of the belief that the electricity of some places are been sold out to some estates giving a reference over the areas that do not have rich people living there.
In my own area, despite the screening on getting an apartment where there's a stable light, it still ended up been bad after packing there. Light would go off for days leaving us with no option than to carry our dead phones around the house until we had solar installed which saved us from dead phones in the day and darkness at night.
Electricity is so bad here that some houses in the same street may have light and in the next line you fall in for your own apartment, there's no light. Businesses suffer great losses due to unstable light and they tend to survive their businesses with alternatives of using generators of fuel or diesel and this still doesn't mean that they won't end up getting a crazy bill at the end of the month.
Talking about that, I think the introduction of the prepaid meter gets to reduce the pressure a bit as you can always get your light unit according to what you have and can purchase and you tend to use it for the time it requires till the unit gets exhausted. That and the solar remains the only solution so far to the electricity issue frustrating us the dear citizens of which we have adapted to since we can do nothing about it and we have no where to go even if there are places to go.
I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the SciFi Multiverse Prompt
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