Kaduna Electric, TCN working to restore supply to Kebbi State

From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

The Managing Director/CEO of Kaduna Electric, Engr. Yusuf Usman Yahaya has disclosed that Kaduna Electric and Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN is working round the clock to restore power supply to Kebbi State in coming days.
Engr. Yahaya made the assertion on Monday evening after paying a sympathy visit as well as assessing the ongoing efforts at ensuring the early restoration of power supply to the State after the midnight inferno at the Transmission Works Centre, Birnin Kebbi last week that plunged the State capital and adjoining Local Governments into darkness.
In a courtesy visit to the Governor of Kebbi State, the Kaduna Electric boss revealed that a team of highly skilled engineers from TCN and Kaduna Electric are collaborating and working in synergy to bring some respite to electricity users in the State in a no too distance future.
“While the TCN team are working round the clock, my colleagues are carrying out some re-configuration and realignment in the network to ensure that we restore limited capacity to the State capital and adjoining Local Government Councils in the days to come”, he said.
He expressed Kaduna Electric’s deep sympathy to the Government and the people of Kebbi State, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN and most importantly to all stakeholders over what he described as “unpleasant experience”.
The Kaduna Electric Managing Director further said that as the standard practice in engineering, such incident is professionally and thoroughly investigated to to determine the remote and immediate cause as well as taking adequate measure to avert recurrence.
In his response, the Executive Governor of Kebbi State, represented by the Deputy Governor of the State, Alhaji Umar Abubakar, Tafidan Kabi thanked the Managing Director for the visit and promised the State Government’s support in safeguarding power supply infrastructure in the State.