That every society has its own idiosyncrasies cannot be gainsaid and for Nigerians, one is screaming UP NEPA anytime electricity is restored after a period of seizure.
Now it is an agelong tradition that started with National Electric Power Authority [NEPA] the agency governing the use of electricity in Nigeria. Though the name of the agency as since been changed to Power Holding Company of Nigeria [PHCN], Nigerians just cannot seem to stop from shouting UP NEPA anytime power is restored.
So, when a Nigerian, who goes by the moniker Yᴏᴜʀ Gʀᴀᴄᴇ✝️/@ArchBishopSkies on Twitter, attempted to persuade his countrymen to change from NEPA to ‘Power has been restored’, his compatriots graciously rejected it in various funny and witty tweets.
He wrote,
Dear Nigerians, It Is Not “Up Nepa” It Is “Power Has Been Restored”
— Yᴏᴜʀ Gʀᴀᴄᴇ✝️ (@ArchBishopSkies) 26 October 2019
But Nigerians are having none of it and have said,
It’s a Generational tradition and our fundamental Human Rights to shout “Up Nepa!!!!” anything order than that is a crime under section 2, subsection 4 of the power act. Be guided
— Engr. Michael (@micodon2k10) 27 October 2019
Even in afterlife the Nigeria in me will still shout up Nepa in heaven once I see light.
— LAWD ?INTO? (@Pintojoke) 26 October 2019
Lol you saying. Just on Friday here I overheard the Sch behind my house shouting U for up nepa
— ?zeh? (@zemyhwat) 27 October 2019
Please don’t remodel our heritage oooo
— Son of Woli Jaiye (@JaiyeBLVCK) 27 October 2019
That one no sweet
— T J I C A N (@iamktj25) 27 October 2019
Before you finish saying “Power has been restored” they would’ve taken the light back.
— ?? I almost (@Kvng_Bisi) 26 October 2019
Oga that one concern una….. Something I learnt before I was born! Nothing can change that one.
— Joshua (@Joshua17767) 27 October 2019
This one isn’t sweet abeg.
Before you don reach “restored” them don carry the light back ?— Three Eyed Raven (@Nathan_00_7) 27 October 2019
Waste your time well well ó!
Thing wey we meet for our parents them mouth, first thing wey babies dey first learn to talk…. OYO ló wá— El Hadj_OlaCode™ (@PrinceLaid) 26 October 2019
So we should start shouting power has been restored when they bring light?
Respect our culture pls— BUZSIE BOI (@BUZSIEBOI_) 27 October 2019
