By Hope Temitope
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it is working with the Office of the National Security Adviser to repair the vandalized Shiroro-Kaduna line that led to reduction of bulk electricity to Kaduna, Kano and other major cities in the north.
In a statement, the General Manager, Public Affairs of TCN, Ndidi Mbah, said TCN is working diligently to restore bulk power supply as quickly as possible in the North, despite security challenges.
Mbah emphasized that the current outage affecting Northern states for several days now is as a result of vandalism of the Shiroro-Mando transmission line – a critical infrastructure that supplies electricity to the region, adding that insecurity in the area has delayed the immediate repair necessary to restore power supply.
“However, as a temporary measure, TCN had rerouted bulk power supply through the Ugwuaji-Apir 330kV line, which recently snapped.
“TCN has been collaborating closely with the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) to work with our engineers to access the vanalism site to enable them to effect necessary repairs. This is vital to ensure the safety of lives during the repairs.
“We remain steadfast in our commitment to overcoming these challenges because we understand the place of electricity in the socio-economic lives of the people and the extreme inconveniences this situation is causing the government and all electricity customers in all the affected areas.
“We pledge not to relent in doing everything possible to rectify the problems and restore power supply to the affected areas.” He added.
