Blackout hits Nasarawa, Benue, as vandals destroy six TCN APIR-Lafia towers

Parts of Nasarawa and Benue states are experiencing electricity supply disruptions as vandals destroyed six Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, APIR-Lafia towers.

TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.

Mbah said TCN’s towers, T125 to T130, collapsed on May 30th, due to a heavy downpour.

She noted that preliminary investigation by the agency showed that the critical components of the lines were vandalized.

TCN said that incident resulted in both the Apir–Lafia 330 kV transmission lines, I and II, being out of service pending the reconstruction of the affected towers.

“This incident directly affects electricity supply to communities within the franchise areas of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company and Jos Electricity Distribution Company.

“Meanwhile, the Lafia 330kV Transmission Station is being supplied through the Lafia–Jos transmission line as a temporary measure to minimize the impact of the outage on affected electricity customers within the franchise areas of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC),” TCN stated.

TCN condemned the incident and appealed to host communities and general public to report any suspicious activities around transmission installations.