Blackout Hits Maiduguri As Insurgents Destroy Electricity Tower

• Maiduguri and environs have been thrown into total blackout following the destruction of one of the towers supplying electricity.
• Kingsley Nkemneme said the problem has to do with Transmission Company of Nigeria.

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Residents of Maiduguri and environs have been thrown into total blackout following the destruction of one of the towers supplying electricity to the city from the national grid.

EKO HOT BLOG gathered that the blackout, which has lasted for one week, has grounded many businesses relying on electricity and those operating on generators are managing to render skeletal services.

According to reports, some residents who spoke to newsmen did not only condemn the action of the insurgents but lamented the continued inability of the authorities concerned to restore the power urgently to ameliorate their plight.

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Meanwhile the Corporate Communication Manager of Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) in charge of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Taraba states, Kingsley Nkemneme when contacted said he could not comment because the problem has to do with Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

“The TCN is in a better position to comment on this as the problem is not about distribution but transmission,’’ Nkemneme said. NAN reports that this is the second time in three months that insurgents have attacked the power transmission line to Maiduguri.