Yemisi Izuora/Ijeoma Agudosi
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Lagos office and the Eko Electricity Distribution Company have given reason for the power outage being experienced in some areas within the company’s operational territory since Sunday, the 13th of March, 2016.
TCN communications officer Celestine Osin and her Eko Disco counterpart Godwin Idemudia in separate statements attributed the outage to a line trip from Egbin Power Station.
According to Idemudia the line trip had made it impossible for customers being serviced from Ajah, Lekki and Alagbon transmission injection sub-stations to receive power supply.
Areas listed to have been affected by the outage include Lagos Island, Ikoyi, Victoria Island Lekki, Ajah, Ibeju and their environs.
The statement further stated that concerted efforts are already being made by generation and transmission technical personnel to clear the fault and restore supply in record time.
Idemudia therefore appealed to customers to please bear with the company adding that supply to all affected areas would be restored as soon as the fault is cleared.
He also assured that the company’s distribution facilities are in good shape for effective evacuation of power to customers as soon as the line fault between generation and transmission stations is fixed.
Similarly in her statement the Management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria(TCN) Lagos confirmed fault at the detachment on the sky wire of the Egbin-Ajah 330KV Transmission Line 3 which feeds the areas.
Osin said, “Our team of maintenance engineers are already at work to rectify the fault as quickly as possible, with the aim of getting customers back to the system.
We therefore use this medium to apologize to all affected customers to please bear with us for all the inconveniences they are suffering as a result of the blackout. Once again we assure customers of a speedy remedial of the situation”.