There was a mild drama in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, on Tuesday, as some women marched to the office of Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) over what they described as their inability to have a conjugal relationship with their husbands due to heat.

Armed with placards with inscriptions such as ‘No Light, No Payment’, ‘The Heat is too much’, etc, they lamented the untold hardship they were passing through.

The protesting women said their husbands no longer touch them at night due to heat, lamenting their inability to preserve cooked foods for weeks as a result of power outage.

They also said their businesses had been grounded due to poor power supply.

The leader of the protesting women, Maria Ike, said, “We have decided to let the world know what we are passing through in the hands of PHED. The poor supply in our area is at zero level even though we pay monthly bills to PHED. We no longer have romance and conjugal relationships with our husbands because of so much heat due to power failure. Our businesses have collapsed because of a power outage. This is really affecting our families,” she said.

When contacted PHED Public Relations Officer, Livingstone Koko, said that the issue of poor power supply is a general problem in the country.