By Marshal Abia
Apart from water which is an essential commodity from nature, no individual can live comfortably without light, no business can thrive successfully without light.
Even God according to the story of creation, created light and separated it from darkness which could not comprehend. This means that living in darkness is a sin before God.
Power supply in Nigeria has fallen apart and the effect of it is directly on Oro nation. This may sound very incredible but it's true.
I will only give one reason to buttress my point; Oro nation is widely known and recognised as the home of seafood.
This means that there must always be regular, constant and uninterrupted power supply for fish, crabs and crayfish to be preserved for buyers who love them fresh without decay.
So now, how do those in this line of occupation cope with buying fuel on a daily basis to maintain the business and make it active and lucrative as it where? Small and medium scale businesses are short-lived since there is no way they could be operated without power.
For example how will a welder or a barber maximize profit when all his income is being fantastically expended on maintaining generating sets by fueling it as customers patronize and at the same time pay rent for shops they acquire? Let me not even go further to mention bars that people can resort to buy cool drink or water.
Life could be so unbearable with this trend of unreliable power supply especially with people of low capital.
For the past two weeks now, Oro nation has been in total blackout without hope of when light will eventually come.
It has become a routine that light will only come two days to when the Electricity Distributing Company realized monthly bill is ready.
For how long will the people of Oro nation continue to pay over estimated bills of what they did not even benefited from?
Investigations reveal that the DM of Eket Senatorial District, Mr Ekpe had disconnected Oro nation from the grid of power supply demanding for 90 million naira target that has not been met. How and why is Oro paying this highest tariffs for what is not obtainable?
A reliable source from the Oron sub station who pleaded anonymity said this Mr Ekpe ordered One 'Utibe' by name to remove one span from the high tension feeding Udung Uko and one span also from the high tension feeding Mbo Local Government respectively.
This is why the two local government areas are not having light from time immemorial.
My source alleged that over 20 applicants who went for interview in Calabar were not employed by this same Mr Ekpe, even when the helpless applicants spent two days in Calabar, spent money to buy materials.
Yet some people who are not from Oro nation but were recommended and employed by this same Mr Ekpe because they all come from the same place.
This is the height of tribalism. But why is this Mr Ekpe so "harsh and wicked" my source complained bitterly.
I am calling on the three in one Minister of Power and Steel, Babatunde Fashola to look into the plight of Oro nation by releasing 132 tower line to feed the entire Oro nation at large for things can only get better if this is done.
I live with my people!
I feel their suffering!!
I share in their plight!!!
I am their voice, I speak their language and I write on their behalf as their MOUTHPIECE
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