A trailer truck carrying a container has rammed into the bottom of a Transmission Firm of Nigeria (TCN)’s Tower T16 positioned in Gunduwawa Village of Gezawa native authorities space of Kano State, destroying the tower and inflicting energy outage in a number of communities of neighbouring Jigawa and Yobe States.
In line with an announcement by TCN Common Supervisor, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, on Monday evening, the incident occurred on Sunday, August 11, 2024, at about 9.28am, resulting in the Kano–Hadejia 132kV Transmission Line to journey, shedding about 16.6MW.
“Trial re-closure of the road to allow continued bulk energy provide failed, prompting the instant dispatch of a patrol group to survey the road. The group discovered {that a} trailer truck carrying a container had hit tower T16 located in Gunduwawa and destroyed two legs of the tower, inflicting it to buckle and fall.
“The incident triggered the tripping of the road, chopping off provide because the tower fell on the container and hit a close-by residential constructing damaging part of it. Though no life was misplaced, the incident has been reported to Gezawa Divisional Police Station and the driving force has additionally been detained.
“Sadly, this has put Hadejia, Gumel, Gagarawa, Nguru, Mallammadori, Birniwa, Kafin-Hausa, Auyo, Guri, Kaugama, Taura, Garki, Maigatari, Babura, Kirikasamma, Machina Native Authorities Areas in Jigawa and Yobe States in darkness, and presently, there isn’t a different supply of bulk energy provide to 2 of TCN’s substations, the Gagarawa and Hadejia substations.
“Because of this the affected areas won’t have provide till the tower is repaired,” the assertion mentioned.
TCN pledged to do all the pieces doable to shortly dismantle the broken tower, re-erect a brand new one and restring the traces to allow the resumption of bulk energy provide to the 2 substations to allow the DisCos offtake energy for its clients inside the affected areas.
It added {that a} contractor has already been contracted to reconstruct the tower, and he’s anticipated to mobilise to the positioning of the incident on Monday.
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