By Etuka Sunday
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) hereby state that two towers along the Damaturu – Maidugiri 330kV Transmission Line has again been vandalized by insurgents, after it had made concerted effort and restored power to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on 24th March, 2021, two months after the first incident.
The incident which occurred at about 5.56am in the morning, again cut power supply to Maiduguri and its environs. This time, the insurgents chain bombed two other towers; T152 and T153 along the same line route of the other incident.
The General Manager, Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah in a statement said, TCN would continue to do all that it could to ensure power supply is restored to the affected areas.
Recall, TCN restored power supply to Maiduguri, Borno State and its environs, on Wednesday 24th March 2021 around 3:51pm.
Bulk power supply was being transmitted through a diversion using 33 kilovolts high tension poles as a by-pass transmission line, constructed by TCN engineers to enable supply to Maiduguri, while effort is ongoing to reconstruct three vandalised transmission towers along 330kV Damaturu – Maiduguri line
On the 26th of January, 2021, three (3No) towers in Jakana area of Maiduguri were vandalized and that caused power outage in Maiduguri and environs. Due to the enormity of the damage, and 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.
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