Powering Home..

If am to document my experiences with electric power supply is going to be broken into three sets.
— My mother’s land
—The white city
—My father’s land.
Haha.. the laughter is real😅 and I beg you pardon me for that but I couldn't just help laughing out after seeing the subtitles I gave to my notes myself lol.

I will make my explanations as brief as I can and that would bring us first to the beginning of “My Mother’s Land”.
How interesting to note that my country home isn't a place to blow up too much grammar while referring to “Electric Power Supply” instead we go with the easy and known words “Nepa”.
I grew up hearing this and up till now, it never changed.
Oh.. and how Nepa had showed us all different shades of colors and how joyful would it be in the heart of the majority of citizens in my home country when one person just shouted ” Up Nepa” and it turned out to be true.
Now you get the gist, right? Oh, and if you haven’t then the summary of this is that there’s no light in my country home.

This is however the opposite of the ” white man’s City”. I remembered my first visit outside Africa and oh my! Only God is capable of reverting all the causes I made on the government of my homeland. Mind you, there are still places in Africa that provide 24/7 power supply for their citizens but then it’s more common among the western part of the world. Visiting a place where the sound of a generator is not heard and still yet, electric power is supplied in its whole might was my best part, not even a blink at all.
On the other hand, my father’s land is no different from my mother’s, just so you know.

Partly the reasons I laughed at first.

In Nigeria, is well known that only houses located in certain estates that could of course be afforded by the rich class to the wealthy are fortunate enough to experience 24/7 light and just to note again, they pay a fortune to get that in place.

And while wondering why the average income earner wasn’t added, well that’s because the majority of them are the ones to disturb us every night with the sound of the generator as revenue for power supply. I experience the estate part anytime I go to stay with my god mom and on certain occasions witness how her mobile battery would just go dead and in my mind I will just say “Well, they see the light every time, so, therefore, the worth is less”. Why not?
This is me that would enter the same house and the first thing my brain reminds me of is to put to charge all my electronics from my mobile phone to rechargeable lamps and that’s to tell you how bad of a power supply it is right here in my county home.
While others use pre-paid as a preferred option, I would rather go with a direct light and pay the general but expensive bill because in the end even the pre-paid is far more consuming than direct, and if given the option of solar. I have all the reasons to settle there as it would solve all my concerns. My county still seems to be a developing one and this issue of electricity is one major barrier that had held us bad for the long run.