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Friday, August 10, 2007

5 Killed in Fire

It was a sad start to the morning to read this piece of news.

"A couple and three of their children were killed when their house was destroyed in a pre-dawn fire that is believed to have been caused by a lit candle.

They were using candles because the electricity to the house had been disconnected as they could not pay the bill. ..."
(Emphasis added)
TheStaronline


Electricity is a basic need of life. They did not want it for business, they needed it to live. Where is the compassion of TNB?

Fair, TNB is in business and is not a charitable organisation. But can a mechanism be implemented whereby instead of disconnecting the supply, the defaulting household is allocated a bare minimum of power, say to light two bulbs, to show some respect and value to life?

A more important question Ben has is ...

... why should this happen if the NEP is available to them?


Peace

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