The managing director/CEO of Kaduna Electric, Engr. Yusuf Usman Yahaya has disclosed that Kaduna Electric and Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN are working round the clock to restore power supply to Kebbi State in coming days.
Engr. Yahaya made the assertion on Monday evening after paying sympathy visit as well as assessing the ongoing efforts at ensuring 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 no distant 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 days to come”, he said.
He expressed Kaduna Electric’s deep sympathy to the Government and people of Kebbi State, 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 incidents are professionally and thoroughly investigated to determine the remote and immediate cause as well as taking adequate measures 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.
The managing director/ CEO, Kaduna Electric, was also at the Transmission Works Centre, Birnin Kebbi where he was received and conducted round the Station by the General Manager, Kaduna Region, Engr. AbdulGaniyu and Assistant General Manager, Technical Services, Engr. AbdulAziz Abubakar, where teams of Engineers from both the TCN and Kaduna Electric were seen working assiduously to bring the station back in service.
Engr. Yahaya commended the commitment and timely response of the TCN team, pledging the support and cooperation of the Distribution Company.
In the Palaces of the Emirs of Gwandu and Argungu, Engr. Yahaya expressed the Company’s concern over the inconveniences caused by the current power supply situation in the State and called on the monarchs to educate their subjects to be more vigilant to prevent men of underworld from taking advantage of the situation to vandalise power supply installations in the affected areas.
“I want to appeal to Your Royal Highnesses to help us, through the traditional leadership at the District and Wards level, in mobilising the entire populace to be more vigilant and apprehend anyone seen pilfering with any equipment or acting suspiciously near or around our distribution transformers. Acts of vandalism are attacks on our collective wellbeing and means of sustenance”, he cautioned.
In their separate remarks, the Emirs Gwandu, Alhaji Muhammadu Iliyasu Bashar and the Emir of Argungu, Alhaji Sama’ila Muhammadu Mera commended the Kaduna Electric leader for the visit and comforting reassurances and pledged their cooperation in sensitising the public.
