Power Generation Drops By 1,100MW as Egbin Workers' Crisis Persist

 

Electricity generation in the country has dropped by 1,100 megawatts as output from Egbin Power Plant, the biggest generating power station in Nigeria has dropped to zero, according to ThisDay.

 

It was gathered that the 1,320 megawatt-capacity plant was generating 1,100 megawatts before the drop in generation. The development, it was learnt, followed an alleged sabotage by one of the former employees of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria who threw an object into the power plant and it tripped off.

The defunct PHCN workers, on their part, had claimed that the management invited about 100 hoodlums in five buses to sack them from the Egbin Housing estate. Other occupants of the estate include: staff of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and workers of Egbin Power Plc.

Reports have it that the unidentified persons removed the roofs of the houses occupied by the former employees apparently without the knowledge of the Chairman of the Board of Egbin Power Plc, Mr. Kola Adesina, who was said to be outside the country.

It was also learnt that trouble started when these unknown persons allegedly removed the roofs of the houses of some TCN staff and Egbin workers in error and in protest , one of the affected workers allegedly threw an object into the power plant and it tripped off.