The newly inaugurated Board Chairman of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said the absence of electricity in rural communities has limited recreational activities and left residents with little choice but to remain at home at night.
This, according to Fayose, has doubled the population growth across the country as lack of electricity in rural communities leads to early bedtime, which makes people engage their wives and keep the population growing.
Fayose, who made the remarks on Friday in Abuja, further argued that providing electricity to rural communities would encourage residents to stay out later, promote nightlife and create alternative forms of recreation.
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He said, “Why don’t you address this issue of electricity? The people at that level have no alternative attraction. Nothing else matters to them. After 7 o’clock, it gets dark there.
“Everybody is engaging their wives. And the population simply becomes double. The simple problem is that there is a lack of electricity.
“People go to bed early. Their mind is simply prepared that, well, if this is the only available recreation, let me remain here.
“But when we address this electricity, there will be nightlife. There will be recreation outside your wife,” he said.
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