The power rationing that began late last year is now a lot worse, thanks to our well-documented inability to plan for the future.
As a result, Tanesco employees are now the only workers of a power utility in the world who are being paid for not supplying its customers with electricity. Come to think of it. Tanesco is paying its workers for rationing electricity instead of ensuring the constant availability of the same! Some things can only happen in Tanzania.
We were earlier this month told that power would be switched off for up to 12 hours daily, but it is now not unusual for people to go without electricity for three consecutive days. Those who are lucky get electricity for not more than six hours a day.
I would have expected Tanesco to at least have the decency to tell its customers that the rationing had been extended. It has not done this, opting instead to keep quiet as the country plunges into total darkness.
Tanesco has some very tough questions to answer, and it is not surprising that its officials have been skipping radio and television talk shows on the power crisis. They know they have nothing to say that will appease the tens of thousands of its very angry customers.
I am sure Tanesco will come tops if somebody decides to hold a survey on the most hated public institutions in Tanzania.
Chadema were you at. we need major help
As a result, Tanesco employees are now the only workers of a power utility in the world who are being paid for not supplying its customers with electricity. Come to think of it. Tanesco is paying its workers for rationing electricity instead of ensuring the constant availability of the same! Some things can only happen in Tanzania.
We were earlier this month told that power would be switched off for up to 12 hours daily, but it is now not unusual for people to go without electricity for three consecutive days. Those who are lucky get electricity for not more than six hours a day.
I would have expected Tanesco to at least have the decency to tell its customers that the rationing had been extended. It has not done this, opting instead to keep quiet as the country plunges into total darkness.
Tanesco has some very tough questions to answer, and it is not surprising that its officials have been skipping radio and television talk shows on the power crisis. They know they have nothing to say that will appease the tens of thousands of its very angry customers.
I am sure Tanesco will come tops if somebody decides to hold a survey on the most hated public institutions in Tanzania.
Chadema were you at. we need major help