BY NAJIB SANI, GOMBE
The entire Gombe State has since Monday been facing total blackout as a result of power outage, causing the residents to sleep under darkness and extreme heat.
Our correspondent reports that the development also affected communication as residents complaint that their phones died and they had to charge them at commercial charging points, thereby obstructing passage and reception of information.
However, the management of Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) which supplies electricity to the state explained that the current outage being experienced in Gombe was a result of vandalism of the 330 kilovolts transmission line otherwise called tower of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
According to a statement issued by the company’s head of corporate communications, Friday Adakole Elijah, on Tuesday, a windstorm vandalised the 330 kilovolts tower around Shingen Abba area, Tirwun village in Bauchi (which connects Gombe to the national grid).
“The unfortunate incident has affected the entire Gombe State including Ashaka Cement Plant. TCN is already working assiduously towards reconstructing the collapsed tower in order to restore normal supply to the good people of Gombe state.
“Customers are therefore requested to kindly bear with the company as the management is endeavouring to solve the problem.”, he said in the statement.
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