Meter Cards: Customers Besiege Enugu PHCN Offices

As business resumed at PHCN facilities in Enugu on Thursday,
electricity consumers besieged the offices to recharge their meter cards, after
a 4-day strike by workers.

Many of the consumers had stayed without electricity in the
four days that the workers embarked on an industrial action.

The Tide reports that the customers waited on long queues to
recharge their cards.

Some of the customers who spoke with our correspondent
expressed satisfaction with the resumption of work and called on the government
to resolve the incessant strike by the workers.

Mr Alex Okeke, a customer, said that for three days his
family had been without light.

He said that was the first time he experienced such a
situation and called on the PHCN management and the government to find a
lasting solution to the industrial action.

Mrs Ngozi Ezeanyika, another customer, expressed
dissatisfaction with the strike, saying she spent N1,000 daily to buy petrol to
power her generator because she ran out of credit on her pre-paid meter.

Ezeanyika said that all the perishable food items in her
house got spoilt because of the situation.

Mr Kingsely Umeh, a cyber café owner, said the strike
paralysed his business for two days, adding. “I can not afford to operate on
generator due to the cost of diesel now.’’