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TCN engineers working to restore power to Maiduguri
- Boko Haram had attacked installations in January
- Consumers were left without electricity
The engineers of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) are working tirelessly to restore electricity supply to areas affected by the last Boko Haram attack on electrical installations. The terrorist group had in January attacked the electrical installations in the city throwing customers into darkness.
Residents of Maiduguri have bemoaned the outage saying it has affected their means of livelihood in the city. “I have now turned to a labourer, assisting a bricklayer for a fraction of what I make as a welder, which is inadequate to feed my family”, Musa said who before the attack was a welder.
“I have nothing left, even if power is restored I will have to raise another capital and I don’t know how,” said Grema Umar, who prior to the attack relied on electricity to carry out his ice block making business.
Maiduguri is one of the worst-hit states facing the Boko Haram insurgency in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria.