Blackout calls for grassroots anti-graft drive

The severing of electricity supply to an area housing a KTV bar in Qixian county, Henan province, recently caused power outage in thousands of households, exposing the blatant abuse of power by the head of the power station.

Media reports say the power station head, surnamed Wang, and three other men went to the KTV bar in the afternoon to have a drink. And when the bar employees refused to serve them vintage wine for free, Wang and his companions, who were already drunk, went on the rampage in the bar.

Not content with having vandalized the place, Wang told the bar manager that he would demonstrate the "power of the electricity tiger'". He then called one of his subordinates at the power station and ordered him to cut off electricity supply to the area for an "emergency overhauling of a power facility". The power cut caused a blackout in about 3,000 households in more than 20 communities.