Borno State: Transmission Company of Nigeria restores electricity supply in Maiduguri

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has restored electricity power supply to Maiduguri, Borno State capital and its environs.

This is nearly two months after insurgents vandalized the three towers in the Jakana area of Maidugurion on January 26, 2021, which caused power outage in Maiduguri and its environs.

Due to the enormity of the damage, and the time it would take to reconstruct the towers, TCN Management tasked its engineers to urgently construct a temporary by-pass so that power is restored to the affected areas in the shortest possible time.

The incident notwithstanding, TCN engineers re-mobilized to the site and completed the temporary transmission line.

The power supply is presently being transmitted through a diversion using 33 kilovolts high tension poles as a by-pass transmission line.

The high tension volt is constructed by TCN engineers to enable supply to Maiduguri, while effort is ongoing to reconstruct three vandalised transmission towers along the 330kV Damaturu – Maiduguri line.

Speaking on the execution of the 330kV Damaturu-Maiduguri diversion (by-pass), the Acting Managing Director of TCN, Engr. Sule Abdulaziz noted that while work was ongoing on the temporary transmission line in the month of February, five out of the TCN engineers working on the line were rushed to the hospital when their vehicle drove on an explosive device buried underground by insurgents.

Presently, work is still ongoing on the towers.

Engr. Abdulaziz expressed his profound gratitude to the Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum, for his invaluable assistance so far, and commended the team of TCN engineers who consistently put their lives on the line to ensure that the 330kV Damaturu – Maiduguri by-pass is completed, even as they continue to work on the three transmission towers that were vandalized.

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