Electricity fully restored in Borno – TCN



The General Manager of Bauchi region of
Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN),
Engineer Idris L. Alim has said that electricity
has been fully restored in Maiduguri, the
Borno state capital; four months after 132
KVA “power lines and transmissions stations”
were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents
along the 87-kilometre Maiduguri-Damboa
road.
He said besides the June 3, 2015 cut off of
power lines by the insurgents, several
attempts were made by the Yola Electricity
Distribution Company (YEDC) to fix the
destroyed power lines early this year, but the
insurgents continued to destroy them.
“The restorations of these power lines were
made possible when we complained to
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state on
how to completely fix the destroyed power
lines to Maiduguri; because without security
backups and logistics for the difficult terrains
of the Sambisa Forest, the incessantly
destroyed electric transmission lines may not
be fully fixed for 24-hour electricity supply,”
said Alim.
He said: “Since our team of engineers and
technicians completed the test-run of
supplying electricity to Maiduguri last
Tuesday, we released a maximum of 20
megawatts of electricity for Borno state.
Since then, the reports we have been getting
from residents and other business
communities indicate that the affected
metropolis is now getting 24-hour supply of
electricity.”
The supply of electricity to Maiduguri city,
according to one Mallam Isa Yakubu of
Government Reservation Area (GRA) of
Maiduguri, has been restored since last
Wednesday with non-interruption of supplies
in highbrow areas of the University of
Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Teaching Hospital, GRA,
Baga and Bolori residential areas and 202,
303, 707 and 1000 Housing Estates of
Maiduguri metropolis.
Alim however noted that any Maiduguri ward
or residential areas that have no electricity
must have been affected by faulty
transmission lines and transformers.