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NEPA explains power outage in Umuahia
By Uche Nwosu
Special
Correspondent, Umuahia
The Business Manager of the National Electric Power Authority
(NEPA) in Umuahia, Abia State, Mr. Fidelis Nduka Obishai, has blamed the
constant outage in the area on torrential rains and heavy thunderstorm.
He said power supply in Umuahia that had worsen since July
was a result of the state of some of NEPA’s installations, which at times
failed to withstand the heavy rain coupled with the inadequacies of the
authority’s power generation.
He said more people and companies are hooking up to NEPA
without the corporation upgrading its facilities to meet up the demands, adding
that with the latest positive move by management to improve facilities
nationwide, the outage in Umuahia and its environs would be a thing of the
past.
Before now, he said, NEPA had no installation to match the
increasingly demands of electricity consumers, stressing that houses are being
built, companies are being established while the government was opening up new estates
that require electricity and that NEPA was making strident effort to meet up.
Obishai decried the absence of a 132KV sub-station in Umuahia that has
witnessed improved human and material development in the last five years. The
Business Manager said as an interim measure to improve electricity supply and
stop power outage in the town, a 33 KV express station or power-line was being
worked on to supply electricity to Umuahia from Aba.
This power-line, he said, was being constructed as a measure
to facilitate enough power supply in the town.
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