Drama in Rivers as women protest, lament ‘Our husbands no longer touch us because of heat’
There was drama on Tuesday when aggrieved women in Rivers State dropped out to protest power outage in the Mile 2 and Mile 3 areas of Port Harcourt, the state capital.
One if their major grouse is the refusal of their husbands to make love to them because of heat.
The angry women, who stormed the office of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) on Tuesday morning to ventilate their grievances, lamented: “Our husbands are no longer touching us because of heat.”
One of the protesters, who identified herself as Mrs. Charity, spoke on behalf if others, saying: “We are here to tell PHEDC that we don’t have light in mile 3 area; Ojuoto, Dim and Wokoma streets.
“We always pay our bills but we don’t see light. They don’t even flash it. We want them to also know that we are not paying bills this month because there hasn’t been light.
“It is affecting us. We can no longer preserve our food and our husbands no longer make love to us because of heat. We can’t charge our phones because it is candles that we now use.”
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The women carried placards, which bore various inscriptions, such as, No light, no bill”; “Dim street no light”; “No light, no payment”; “The heat is too much”.
They marched on the streets of Dim, Wokoma, Wokoma lane, Obaziolu, Dim lane, Egbuagu, Azikiwe, Ojoto chanting songs in solidarity.
The protesting women said the situation had brought untold hardship on them, and accused PHED of supplying darkness instead of light.
The women said the development affected their businesses as they were posting losses despite their compliance to payment of bills to PHEDC.
