Residents of Maiduguri and its environs will experience power outages as vandals again have destroyed the recently rebuilt T193 and T194 towers along the Damaturu-Maiduguri 330kV Single Circuit Transmission Line. The general manager of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
TCN said the incident on its towers was done around 10:15 pm on Tuesday, resulting in its 150MVA power transformer at Molai Substation and 330kV transmission line supplying bulk supply to Maiduguri tripping. 'The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN , hereby states that two of its towers, T193 and T194, along the Damaturu- Maiduguri 330kV Single Circuit Transmission Line have again been destroyed by vandals.
recalls that on December 28, 2023, towers T193, T194 and T195 were destroyed with improvised explosives. In February 2024 alone, TCN said it recorded five incidents of facility vandalisation.
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