The General Manager of Bauchi region of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Engineer Idris L. Alim has said that electricity has been fully restored in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital; four months after 132 KVA “power lines and transmissions stations” were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents along the 87-kilometre Maiduguri-Damboa road.
He said besides the June 3, 2015 cut off of power lines by the insurgents, several attempts were made by the Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) to fix the destroyed power lines early this year, but the insurgents continued to destroy them.
“The restorations of these power lines were made possible when we complained to Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno state on how to completely fix the destroyed power lines to Maiduguri; because without security backups and logistics for the difficult terrains of the Sambisa Forest, the incessantly destroyed electric transmission lines may not be fully fixed for 24-hour electricity supply,” said Alim.
He said: “Since our team of engineers and technicians completed the test-run of supplying electricity to Maiduguri last Tuesday, we released a maximum of 20 megawatts of electricity for Borno state. Since then, the reports we have been getting from residents and other business communities indicate that the affected metropolis is now getting 24-hour supply of electricity.”
The supply of electricity to Maiduguri city, according to one Mallam Isa Yakubu of Government Reservation Area (GRA) of Maiduguri, has been restored since last Wednesday with non-interruption of supplies in highbrow areas of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Teaching Hospital, GRA, Baga and Bolori residential areas and 202, 303, 707 and 1000 Housing Estates of Maiduguri metropolis.
Alim however noted that any Maiduguri ward or residential areas that have no electricity must have been affected by faulty transmission lines and transformers.
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