-Iroko Ayomide, 13, S.S.1, Queensway College, Ilupeju
I can’t find words to describe the Power
Holding Company of Nigeria. I’m just so disappointed with them. I wonder
what service they are rendering. In my area (Palmgrove, Lagos), we
hardly have electricity. If I get the opportunity to go to their office,
I will go straight to their manager’s office. I will kindly ask him to
explain why we hardly have electricity. It’s really affecting us
(children). You find babies with serious skin rashes because of heat. I
can never forget what happened to my sister last year. There was no
electricity that day and the kerosene in the lantern we were using to
read had almost finished. She decided to add more kerosene and by
mistake the kerosene poured on her body. Beside the lantern, there was a
candle. Her skirt got burnt; the fire also burnt her laps. That day was
a very sad day.
President Goodluck Jonathan should please
help out and make electricity stable. If he needs to increase salaries
of PHCN officials, let him do so. However, I feel there are people
within PHCN stealing our money.
-Praise Peter, 11, J.SS.1, African Nursery and Primary School, Abule Oja
PHNC is terrible. They don’t provide us
with electricity. In a day, we can hardly have electricity for an hour.
It is very bad. I feel President Goodluck Jonathan should change the
people working there and get a new set of employees. I’m not happy with
them. When there is no electricity, I can’t read my books. During my
last term examinations, I had to read with candle. I was straining my
eyes. It is not fair. They keep collecting money from us, but are not
providing us with electricity.
-Awofeso Bolanle, 11, Moremi Nursery and Primary School, Oworo
I feel President Goodluck Jonathan should
get more transformers for each community. He should sit down with the
state governors and discuss how much each state would need to get more
transformers. Electricity in Nigeria is bad. If you go abroad, other
countries have stable electricity. Why is Nigeria different? We rarely
have electricity supply. This instability in electricity really affected
my examination scores last term. During lessons, the classrooms are so
hot, I cannot concentrate. And when I even get home, there will be no
electricity to read my books.
-Chisom Onyeaka, 11, Federal College of Education, Technical Staff School, Bariga
PHCN people are bad. Very bad people. They made me have craw craw
(skin rashes). If there is electricity, there would not be heat and if
there is no heat, children would not be battling with skin rashes.
Meanwhile, if you go to the house of these PHCN staff, they have stable
electricity. Even President Jonathan enjoys stable electricity, yet we
citizens are the ones suffering. For four weeks now, we have not had
electricity. I feel something needs to be done. We can’t continue like
this. President Jonathan is the only one that can fix this problem, so
he should do it.
-Zainab Balogun, 12, J.S.S.1, Edijey Comprehensive High School, Ketu
I can even count the number of times we’ve
had electricity this week. I’m so used to staying without electricity.
Since I was small, it has been like that. Can PHCN ever change? The one
thing that upsets me is the heat. I recently had chicken pox. I know
that if electricity is stable, I would not have had chicken pox.
I feel it’s the type of people we have in
the power sector that is causing instability in electricity. If we had
the right set of leaders, this problem would have been dealt with long
time ago. We have leaders that are corrupt. They only care about their
family. I wonder who would fix the problem in the electricity sector.
It’s only God that can help us.
-Grace Idowu, 12, J.S.S.1, Lesrond High School, Gbagada
PHCN used to be wonderful, but now, I don’t
like them. Power supply is off and on. When we have electricity; the
voltage may be low. It’s like Nigeria is living in darkness. I wonder
why a country like ours should be struggling with electricity; yet we
have money and resources. The way forward is to give PHCN out. President
Goodluck Jonathan should go abroad and get people who are capable of
handling PHCN.
Without electricity, we can’t read our books properly. And when we don’t read, we will not do well in our examinations.
-Seun Olawale, 10, Oluwole Nursery and Primary School, Akoka
I can’t wait to finish my education and
leave this country. Things are just not working. The roads are bad,
electricity is instable. When will things get better? Who can we rely
on? I know my parents pay their electricity bills because at the end of
the month, PHCN men always come to our house. They don’t forget their
money; yet we hardly get electricity. We are paying for something we
don’t receive.
When I’m older, I’ll make sure I help my
country. I just wish all these rich people would help Nigeria. President
Goodluck Jonathan should even help us. He has the power to change
things. He should find out what is causing instability in our
electricity. He is our President.
-Kemi Solarin, 11, African Nursery and Primary School, Abule Oja
I think the problem with the PHCN is that
it needs more money. President Goodluck Jonathan should invest more
money in the PHCN. Also, he should increase the salary of PHCN workers. I
feel when these are done, there will be stable electricity and we will
be able to read our books well.
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