Nigerian actress, Ada Ameh has lashed out on the government of the Federal Republic’s inability to provide constant electricity supply in the period that Nigerians observe the stay at home order to curb the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Nigeria as of yesterday 4th April, had recorded 224 coronavirus positive cases with 5 deaths and 27 recoveries.
The country is famous for its erratic power supply and citizens, over the years, haven’t failed to lash out at the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) on various social media platforms.
Most homes in Nigeria are said to have generator sets as you can never tell when the power will go off and when it will be back.
But with the announcement of a lockdown to stem the spread of the dreadful pandemic, citizens were hopeful that there will be regular, if not constant power supply to make life easier for them.
That has however not been the case and a saddened Ada Ameh could not hide her pain of this development in a video she shared online.
According to her, to obey the lockdown directive, many Nigerians stocked up their kitchens with foodstuff which included perishables which they were hoping to store in their fridges for the period, but the erratic power supply is not helping matters
“We are sitting at home and some people bought perishable goods yesterday and tried to stock their houses for them to stay but everywhere you pass is the sound of a generator,” she stated.
The actress who is well known for her character in ‘The Johnsons’, Emu Akpor Johnson, was drawn to tears as she spoke about how most people cannot afford to fuel their generators for the two week lockdown period whilst others cannot even afford a generator.
“For the past few days I know how much I’ve spent buying fuel, what is it. What about the people that cannot afford to buy, should they kill themselves?” she queried.
In a four and half minute’s video, she said their quest to encourage people to stay in their homes to curb the spread of the virus will be in vain if the government fails to provide its quota to that effect by producing constant electricity.
“What kind of a country is this… for God’s sake in these two weeks it is only natural that you can just give this light… let people be able to sit in their house… leave light now, leave light,” she cried out adding that “we try to make ourselves happy, our government do your part.”
Watch the full video below,
Nigerian actress, Ada Ameh