Power to the powerful: Public sweats it out at public representatives expense
Ordinary citizens of capital city were left in darkness to provide uninterrupted power supply to the Ministers’ Enclave last week, The Express Tribune has learnt.
According to Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) sources, at 2am on Monday night, there was a breakdown in the power supply to the enclave, leaving the area in complete darkness.
The sources said that IESCO authorities did not know of the outage until Interior Minister Rehman Malik, himself a resident of the enclave, rang up the top brass of the police department and ordered them to restore the power supply at the earliest.
Requesting anonymity, sources said the senior police officers rushed to the complaint offices of Iesco in Islamabad and urged its officials to restore power supply as soon as possible. Senior police officers remained with the IESCO staff till the power supply was restored.
The ‘innovative’ plan employed by Iesco was to cut off power for different sectors of the federal capital to reroute power.
The sources said that ordinary people were kept in darkness for hours in the steaming hot night to keep the air conditioning running in the Ministers’ Enclave.
The sources said an inquiry was ordered into the sudden power break down in ministers’ enclave, which revealed that one of the main Iesco feeders in Sangjhani, which supplies power to the ministers’ enclave, was out of order.
While the public representatives enjoyed a comfortable sleep for the rest of the night, the public heard repetitions of the same excuse for their plight from Iesco’s complaint offices: routine load shedding.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2011.
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