On Tuesday, some women marched to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) headquarters in the Diobu district of Port Harcourt, Rivers State’s capital, to protest their inability to have conjugal encounters with their spouses because of the heat.
They held signs with statements like ‘No Light, No Payment’, ‘The Heat is Too Much’, and so on to express their dissatisfaction with the situation.
The protesting women claimed their husbands no longer touched them at night due to the heat, and they lamented their inability to store cooked foods for weeks due to a power outage.
They also stated that their businesses had been grounded due to inadequate power supply.
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,” she said.
When contacted PHED Public Relation 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 on power supply in the state.