There was a mild drama on Tuesday in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt when some women carried out a peaceful protest to the office of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) over what they described as their inability to have conjugal relationship with their husbands at night due to heat waves occasioned by poor power supply.
The women marched through Dim Wokoma Lane and Obaziolu, Egbuagu and Azikiwe to Ojoto streets before heading to the PHED office.
The women, armed with placards with inscriptions such as “No light, no payment” and “The heat is too much”, lamented the hardship they were passing through.
They said their husbands were no longer touching them at night due to heat, and also lamented their inability to preserve cooked food for weeks and how their businesses had been grounded due to poor power supply.
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The leader of the women, Maria Ike said, “We have decided to let the world know what we are passing through in the hands of PHED. The poor supply in our area is at zero level despite the fact that we pay monthly bills. We no longer have romance and conjugal relationships with our husbands because there is so much heat due to power failure.
“Our businesses have collapsed because of power outages. This is really affecting our families.”
She pointed out that they would not be paying for darkness and warned that they would re-mobilise and come for another peaceful protest if the condition did not improve.
When contacted, PHED’s spokesman, Livingstone Koko, said that the issue of poor power supply was a general problem in the country.
He said the company was doing its best to improve the power supply in the state.
