FICTION! FICTION!! FICTION!!!
A SERIOUS LESSON OF LIFE.
Once upon a time, there was a city called Vabnaka.
At a time, the law went round the city that having a personal generator was highly prohibited. Violators would be punished with excommunication!
Because of the severity of the punishment attached, everyone who has a generator set, sold it off!
The public electricity management board got every household connected to electricity supply.
Because the only means of electricity was by the public electricity, the electricity management board became proud and corrupt about its services to the consumers. They bill the consumers with impunity and outrageous amounts.
One day, they were on a mass disconnection of defaulters and they came to the only private hospital that was in that city. This hospital was very important to the people because it was the only hospital in that part and it served all the towns and villages far and near. The four electricity officials were been escorted by three armed law enforcement agents.
They brought an outrageous bill of about a million naira to the hospital as its bill for that month!
The doctor in charged of the hospital was bamboozled!
He wondered why the hospital should be given such an outrageous bill. He told the officials that he has been paying between twenty to twenty five thousand naira monthly and he wondered why it suddenly jumped to a million naira!
He begged them to be considerate. But they told him that he either pay or they disconnect his power supply. They reminded him about the huge amount of money he gets daily from the patients who come for treatment there.
He said that he didn't have that much on him and that he would pay half and balance them later.
But they refused saying that he has the money but he just deliberately wanted to pay only a part of it.
And so the electricity officials told the law enforcement agents to be alert and ready to suppress any protest that may be staged or put forward by the doctor and members of staff of the hospital as they climbed to disconnect the power supply to the hospital.
Now, both the doctor, members of staff of the hospital and even patients came out to beg the electricity officials to consider the patients, some whom are undergoing surgical operations.
But all the pleadings fell on deft ears as they went on to disconnect the power supply.
They entered into their van and left.
They had other places to go for disconnection and they sped off. About an hour later, they were involved in a very ghastly accident. Their van had a head on collision with a truck!
The occupants of the truck didn't sustain any injury perhaps because of its height but the occupants of the van which consisted of the electricity officials and the law enforcement agents were fatally wounded! They were rushed to the hospital which they had earlier disconnected its power supply being the only hospital in that part.
They were rushed there as emergency patients who needed an urgent surgical operations!
But the doctor told the people that they disconnected the hospital power supply a few hours ago and so they can't carry out any operation on them.
Many top officials of the electricity management board drove down to the hospital. When they learnt about the power supply disconnection, they called to their officials to come down immediately with their equipment and restore the power supply.
But behold, before the power supply could be restored, they died!
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOU ALL SHOULD INTERPRET THE TOTAL SCENARIO!
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