Phcn wahala, officials beaten

This country's power situation is nothing to write home about.
There's been no power where I live this year. In fact we didn't enter into this year with electricity from PHCN.

A couple of days after Christmas, 3 "NEPA"(we still prefer calling them NEPA) officials came with ladder asking for payment receipt. There was none to give them because we just moved to the house and its a new building and no meter. They insisted on us paying #7,000. I laughed because I knew that ain't happening and I told them as much.
OK, what was the 7k for? They claimed it was 2k for reconnection(for wire they had not disconnected) and 5k for loss of revenue for a month.

We had not stayed for up to a month and I told them as much. They said I must still pay the 5k. At this point I had called my husband because I'm not really good at these sorts of things.
I had to keep them busy and stop them from cutting our wire till husband comes back.

Somehow I was able to convince them to leave our wire. They had already cut the wire of the building opposite ours that was connected to us and took the wire.
I told them I was definitely not paying up to 5k, let's be waiting though. They carried their ladder and moved on, insisting on me collecting their number because they will come back to cut the light if they don't hear from us.

Hmmm!!! Finally oga came and sorted them. We decided to go the route of paying the loss of revenue in a bank and upon enquiry, we found out it's #3,000 as opposed to the #5,000 they told me, imagine that!

We had power supply for about 2days after that incident and poof!!! No more.
On asking around to find out what happened, we were told some PHCN officials were beaten up and in annoyance our line was disconnected pending when the people who beat them are brought forward.

Even when all the areas around us are shinning brightly with NEPA, we are burning off fuel to charge phones and perform other necessities. Its wasteful and tiring
Nigeria, which way???

I think card meters should be compulsory for all buildings and this cutting light mess stopped immediately. It has become very annoying.