The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has disclosed that two of its towers in the northeast have again been destroyed by vandals, barely a week after their restoration.
Spokesperson of TCN, Ndidi Mbah, in a statement on Wednesday said the towers, which are located along the Damaturu-Maiduguri transmission line in the northeastern part of the country, were destroyed by vandals on Tuesday night.
The towers were Initially destroyed by vandals in April this year, plunging many people into darkness for over a month.
“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.
“The incident, TCN believes happened at about 10:15 pm, yesterday night, when the 150MVA power transformer at Molai Substation tripped at the same time as the 330kV transmission line supplying bulk power to Maiduguri from Damaturu Transmission Substation.
“After the line tripping, efforts were made by TCN engineers to close the Mulai – Damaturu line to enable bulk transmission of electricity, which failed repeatedly.
“Early today, however, TCN lines engineers along with security operatives patrolled the line and discovered that towers 193 and 194 along the 330kV transmission line were brought down using an explosive device, whose fragments are scattered at the site of the incident,” Mbah said.
