Northern Outage: Power Minister Promises Full Restoration Soon

The Nigeria’s Northern region has been assured of full power restoration as the region began to enjoy partial power fix.

Nigeria’s Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu gave the assurance at the Government House Kano Northwest Nigeria, when he paid visit to the Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf.

He informed the Governor of the efforts of Nigerian government towards repairing the vandalized sections of the two power lines from

“I can assure you that, our people are on the field working day and night for the partial restoration become full restoration.

“Two of the lines from Markudi-Bauchi road that were vandalized, one of them is up now and I have been assured by the engineers on the field that by Sunday we are going to have a fix of the second line, we are going to have full restoration,” the Minister said.

He said efforts are on going to restore the main transmission line from Shiroro.

Adelabu said; “while we continue to work on the main transmission line to the North which is Shiroro-Mando-Kaduna line which may take us about 14 days to fix because of the extend of damage done to these transmission lines.

“They used land mines to blore up these installations and affected a lot of towers and all requires a lot of civil work for them to be fully fixed.”

The Power Minister who apologized to the Northern region over the power blackout said; “the President Bola Tinubu does not intend to discriminate against the region or any section of the country as being perceived by at some quarters.

“This is not the first time we are having these kinds of vandalization from the Shiroro axis, we had it before and fixed it before the consumers get to know.”

The Minister called on governments at all levels to join forces in protecting the power infrastructures across the country

He said; “We all have a role to play in protecting the power infrastructures including power consumers. A part from the physical security, we need a lot of reorientation of our people against vandalization and power theft.”

Adelabu expressed the commitment of the federal government to partner with states in developing other alternative power sources.

He said; “State Governments should ensure effective implementation of providing alternative electricity sources,And Discos should also ensure reliable distribution services,while Consumers should utilize electricity efficiently.”

The Kano Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf represented by the Chief of Staff, Alhaji Shehu Wada Sagagi informed the Minister of the damages caused by the blackout in the region.

He informed him of the efforts of Kano Government in developing alternative power sources to boost electricity in the state.

The Managing Director Kano Electricity Distribution Company KEDCO Abubakar Yusuf expressed appreciation for the Minister’s visit with the optimism of power restoration in Northern Nigeria.

Mercy Chukwudiebere