Taiwo Popoola
The Acting Managing Director of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Chijioke Okwuokenye, said the Disco has put in place remedial measures to mitigate the impact of the outage on customers in the affected areas.
Okwuokenye disclosed this in an interview with Newsmen on Monday.
This comes as substantial parts of Abuja, Nasarawa, have been plunged into two weeks of darkness starting from Monday, 6 January 2025.
Speaking on the outage, he said AEDC would make sure that electricity supply is not entirely disrupted in the affected areas.
He added that the Disco has load-shedding arrangements to provide power supply to areas affected, noting that there is no intention to keep customers in debt for 14 days.
“The planned outage has started. However, we have put in place remedial solutions to ensure that the affected places are not put in total blackout.
“The arrangement we have in place to make sure that areas affected have power supply, we are very certain of that. Even in places that are difficult to back-feed, we see how we can carry out load shedding to ensure they have some hours of power supply. We are trying to use the distribution feeder to back-feed since the transmission feeder is out of supply. However, the problem with the distribution feeder is that it cannot carry so much.
“There is a remedial effort in place. The issue in places like Kubwa is that the power supply has been diverted from there to the Central Area because we are using the area to feed critical zones like the airport, Idu, and Lokogoma. However, at night, when the load in the highbrow commercial areas is down, we move back to Kubwa. It is about load shedding.
“There is no intention to keep customers in total darkness for 14 days.
“There are different reasons for the outage. However, there is a plan in place to ensure that everyone has power. It would be in the manner they used to get supply, though,”.
Urban Express News Online reports that the outage is due to the relocation of the 33KV DC Airport Feeder and 132KV Kukwaba-Apo Transmission Line Towers along the Outer Southern Motorway.
Areas affected are Kapwa, NNPC, Games Village, National Stadium, Eye Clinic, Indoor Complex, Christ Embassy Church, American International School, Spring Court, American Embassy Quarters, EFCC HQ, Coca-Cola, Railway, and FMC, and parts of Apo.
Others are parts of Gudu, Gbazango & environs; parts of Kubwa, Bwari & environs; parts of Jahi; parts of Jabi; Karu, Nyanya, Mararaba, and Keffi & environs.
Earlier, Urban Express News Online reported Nigerians Bemoaned AEDC the Transmission Company of Nigeria, for the electricity disruption.
