Northern Governors Request FG’s ‘Urgent’ Attention Regarding Power Outage
The governors of the states in the north are demanding that the federal government and other relevant agencies restore electricity quickly in response to their concerns about the current blackout.
The announcement was made on Monday by the Northern Governors’ Forum, who had a unity meeting with traditional rulers and other stakeholders in Kaduna.
The statement issued by the governors after the meeting read as follows: “Forum resolves to call on the Federal Government and relevant agencies to urgently address the current electricity power blackout affecting most of the Northern States due to vandalism of electricity transmission infrastructure.”
“To better connect our region and improve our energy resilience, we need to construct additional transmission lines and diversify our energy supply. This matter also highlights the vulnerability of critical infrastructure.”
A transmission line in the area was vandalised, resulting in a blackout that has persisted for days throughout the north.
Several regions’ economies have ground to a halt as a result of the outage, and businesses all around the region are reporting losses.
President Bola Tinubu was so distressed by the news that he ordered Adebayo Adelabu, minister of power, and others to restore the power grid as soon as possible.
“To work with the Army and Air Force to deploy adequate security personnel, including aerial cover, to protect the engineers who are fixing the damaged transmission line.” This was Tinubu’s second directive to Nuhu Ribadu, the National Security Adviser.
Speaking out against the transmission lines’ damage, the president of Nigeria issued a stern warning that the country will not stand for what he called “deliberate sabotage and destruction of public utilities.”
The impacted region will soon have power restored, according to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
In spite of ongoing security concerns, TCN is working hard to restore bulk power supplies as soon as feasible, according to Ndidi Mbah, the agency’s General Manager of Public Affairs.