Residents of Maiduguri and environs have been thrown into a blackout following the destruction by insurgents of one of the towers supplying electricity to the city from the national grid.
The blackout, which has lasted for one week, has grounded many businesses that rely on power. And this is the second time in three months that insurgents would be attacking the power transmission line in Maiduguri.
Those operating on generators are managing to render skeletal services.
Some residents, who spoke, did not only condemned the action of the insurgents but lamented the continued inability of the authorities concern to restore the power.
They said that they would want something to be done urgently to ameliorate their plight.
When contacted, the Corporate Communication Manager of Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) in charge of Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Taraba states, Mr Kingsley Nkemneme said he could not comment because the problem has to do with Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
“The TCN is in a better position to comment on this as the problem is not about distribution but transmission,’’ Nkemneme said.
