Many people have been complaining that the highly celebrated constant power supply recorded ever since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office has witnessed a sudden decline and power is no longer as constant as it once was.
Truth be told, electricity supply gradually but steadily has regressed back to the dark days. What is happening?
— The Godfather (@Ayourb) October 12, 2015
Investigations into the issue revealed that there has been a massive drop in power generation in Nigeria following the crises among Egbin power plant workers due to problems with the management and sabotage of equipment.
The 1,320 megawatt-capacity plant was generating 1,100 megawatts before the drop occurred. The development, it was learnt, followed an alleged sabotage by one of the former employees of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria who threw an object into the power plant and it tripped off causing the equipment to develop a fault.
The defunct PHCN workers, stating their grievances, alleged that the management invited about 100 hoodlums in five buses to sack them from the Egbin Housing estate.
Sources disclosed that the unidentified persons removed the roofs of the houses occupied by the former employees of PHCN and TCN (Transmission Company of Nigeria) apparently without the knowledge of the Chairman of the Board of Egbin Power Plc, Mr. Kola Adesina, who was said to be outside the country at the time.
It was when some TCN staff and Egbin workers came out in protest of this, one of the affected workers allegedly threw an object into the power plant and it affected a lot of things which led to a downward plunge in the supply of electricity across the nation.
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