Today, February 6, in Rivers State, a group of women marched to the office of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) to protest their inability to engage in intimate relationships with their husbands due to the heat.
Carrying placards with messages like ‘No Light, No Payment’ and ‘The Heat is Too Much,’ the women expressed frustration over the lack of electricity.
They explained that the intense heat at night prevents their husbands from being physically intimate, and they lamented their inability to preserve cooked food due to frequent power outages.
The leader of the protesting 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 to PHED. We no longer have romance and conjugal relationship with our husbands because of so much heat due to power failure. Our businesses have collapsed because of power outage. This is really affecting our families”
When contacted PHED Public Relations Officer, Livingstone Koko said that the issue of poor power supply is a general problem in the country. He said that PHED was doing its best to improve the power supply in the state.
