FG To Reconnect Borno Electricity Lines

The Federal Government
has promised to reconnect Borno State to the national power grid soon.
It said the proposed reconnection stemmed from an agreement reached between the military and the Federal Ministry of Power on security for engineers, who will repair the vandalized power lines in the troubled state.
The Technical Assistant to the Minister of State for Power, Mr Umar Mustapha, said the military and the Transmission Company of Nigeria had reached a final stage on the reconnection on the issue.
Mustapha noted that insurgents had vandalised the 132KVA power line from Damboa to Maiduguri, cutting power supply to the state.
He said efforts to reconnect the line had been hampered by ongoing insurgency and counter insurgency in the area.
Mustapha, in a statement issued by the Special Assistant to the Minister of State for power on media, Mr Olawale Rasheed said several correspondences had been exchanged with the military to ensure the security of engineers, who will work on the vandalised power line.
The Minister, he explained has been in constant touch with the military authorities as well as with the management of Transmission Company of Nigeria to effect the reconnection without further delay.
He said the ministry has accepted the request to provide security cover in view of the security challenges in the area, which led to the vandalism.
“A team has visited the site of the vandalised power lines and both the TCN and he military will soon swing into action”, he said and disclosed further that Wakil had issued written and verbal directives that the reconnection be done now that the security situation had improved in the affected areas.