Mission Impowerable: Electricity hikes and sadness
Tuesday, July 28, 2026 | 50 Views |
You know it’s bad when your salary doesn’t even bother to wave goodbye—it just slips quietly out the back door, leaving a note that says: ‘Don’t wait up, I’m with BPC now.’ At this point, my paycheck isn’t a paycheck. It’s more like a polite suggestion. A whisper. A faint rumor that money once lived here. And every time one opens their bank app, they half expect it to say: ‘404 Balance Not Found.’ Yes, the power tariffs are just about to spike and they are coming to chip away at your salary. Nothing unites humanity quite like the collective gasp of horror when electricity tariffs spike.
So we are going to band together and form support groups like the one they formed in the 80s when teachers were unhappy with a job evaluation exercise. So yes a Tariff Increase Unsatisfied Consumers pressure group might soon be constituted to fight this!
Instead, they should serve as a warning to health authorities, community leaders, and policymakers that something is not right. According to the Palapye District Development Committee’s latest report, 130 abortion cases were recorded between April and June 2026.On the face of it, the overall figure may represent a decline from the preceding quarter. However, going deeper into the figures, the monthly trend tells a different and more worrying...