A mild drama was experienced in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, Nigeria on Tuesday, as some women stormed the office of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) protesting the prolonged power outage.
The protesting women said their husbands no longer touch them at night due to heat, lamenting their inability to preserve cooked foods for weeks.
The women from the Mile 2 and Mile 3 axis of Diobu, Port Harcourt barricaded the PHED office near the Isaac Boro Park in Port Harcourt, saying their husbands barely have time with them at night due to intense heat waves occasioned by epileptic power supply.
The placard-carrying protesters matched through major streets in Diobu, including Wokoma, Dim, Wokoma lane, Obaziolu, Dim lane, Egbuagu, Azikiwe, and Ojoto Streets before heading to the PHED office to register their displeasure.
Some of the inscriptions on the placards carried by the Rivers women read: “We lack romance with our husbands’, ‘Our husbands no longer touch us at night’, No light no payment’, ‘The heat is too much,’ ‘PHED help us to sleep well with our husbands’, among others.