They would storm the streets to ask for explanations and answers. In a sane society where the government says it has spent over $60 billion on the power sector in two decades without results, the citizens would react strongly and demand accountability stoutly. “I have never seen anything like this before.” “PDP has just thrown excreta at Nigerians and they are using it as pancake for their faces,” he told me. He was expecting resistance but saw a people swiftly moving on with our lives. In 2003, an exasperated Chief Gani Fawehinmi, commenting on the fraudulent presidential election, said he could not believe how Nigerians enthusiastically refused to react. When the system throws lemon at us, we catch it. Push us to the wall and we will dig our way through.īut, then, is that not why Nigeria is like this? We perpetually live in mediocrity we readily adjust to subhuman conditions we easily throw up our hands in surrender we gleefully describe rotting bananas as “ripening”. Nigerians are so creative: they always make sense from nonsense. My first instinct was to laugh, which I did.
#Torchlight 2 sweet aide generator
It was a cheaper alternative to torchlight and generator in the face of stable blackouts. She told me it was called “Oju ti NEPA” (“shame on NEPA”). There were several energy-saving bulbs mounted on the low-tech device. It was mounted on a wood, probably six-inch long, with space for two AA batteries. On a visit to my mum years ago - this should be in 2009 - I saw an improvised battery-powered lamp on her table.
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