Should Sesco compensate the consumers for the power failure?

Should Sesco compensate the consumers for the power failure?
Between 80 and 90 per cent of Sarawak’s 2.4 million population were believed to have been affected by the massive power blackout on the 9th of August 2008.

This is Deputy Works Minister Datuk Yong Khoon Seng’s estimate as he described the state’s worst power failure in recent years as “an unfortunate thing that ever happened”. The blackout which hit almost the entire state, began at 6.45pm.

The BN state government only knows how to protect the corporates against the weak individuals. Remember that there was a case of a gaint construction corporation being compensated by the government over the construction of a HDP? But no, the state government came out to protect the SESCO immediately after the worst power failure and told the people that SESCO would not pay compensation to the people over the power failure. Bearing in mind that SESCO profits runs into hundreds of million over the past few year and it charges the highest tariffs in the country, over that of the Tenaga's and Sabah's tariffs.

No wonder Sarawak is the one of the most underdeveloped states in Malaysia. With BN in control, what else can the people expect? But then again,we have been kept in the dark since Merdeka, so the power failure is a most fitting "reflection" of the state of Sarawak?