EDITORIAL ; GHANA MUST GO

I was watching Ghanaians take to the streets to protest massive power outages in that country, and one of them had the audacity to compare little Ghana to Nigeria, and why they do not want to go the Nigerian way, whatever that is.

For starters, I am at a loss at what exactly the Charlies are protesting against. In fact, in the electricity food chain they are toddlers. In Nigeria we have so many categories of outages that protesting against an outage is also a reason for outage.
We no longer consider blackouts as abnormal. In fact, it is the public power supply that is the exception.
We have different categories of light, if I may use that term.
We have the pumping machine light, which is on long enough for you to pump water.
We have the iron your uniform/workcloth light, The rain induced light, that comes on after a heavy downpour.
There is also the big man light, when a big oga came down from Abuja to spend the weekend with his family, which automatically meant uninterrupted supply all weekend.
There is also the party light, when the celebrant had visited their office earlier on a courtesy call, we also have the Christmas light, which comes on and off every other minute.
My favorite of course, is the bill distribution light, which is done a day or two before distributing electricity bills, which is also the time for extortion and shakedowns, as disconnection of real or imagined debtors becomes an avenue for easy money for the Disco staff.
So I implore the Charlies to calm down, they have a long way to go. This is just the pilot episode of what would become a long running soap opera.
My Ten Kobo.