Daily Independent (Lagos)
5 January 2009
For more than two weeks now, residents in Yaba/Ebutte-Metta area of Lagos metropolis have been living in perpetual darkness. Business activities in the area are grounded while many residents now depend solely on their generating sets to supply power for domestic use.
Those who cannot afford generating sets become idle, as their sources of living are hindered due to lack of electricity from PHCN. At the same time, those who use generating sets to operate their business activities have inflated the prices of their services, which make it difficult for residents to get their daily needs due to unaffordable charges
Furthermore, miscreants have exploited the situation to rob residents and non-residents who either come to do business or are in the area late in the night.
Residents said that the perpetual darkness would make some other dwellers engage in criminal activities to meet their daily needs since they cannot afford to buy generating sets to carry out their business activities. Another painful aspect of the situation is that while the Power Holding Company Nigeria (PHCN) is not supplying light into the area, the officials of the agency still come around every month to distribute electricity bills.
The appropriate authority is enjoined to address this problem so that residents will be saved from the activities of hoodlums while they will also enjoy their social life as well as carrying out their daily business activities to be able to take care of their families
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