The Nigerian Transmission Company has clarified that the national grid was shut down by organised labour due to an indefinite strike.
This was revealed in a statement released by TCN’s General Manager of Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, on Monday.
TCN reports that on Monday at around 02:19 am, striking employees belonging to the National Union of Electricity Employees purposefully brought down the country’s grid.
“The Transmission Company of Nigeria hereby informs the general public that the Labour Union has shut down the national grid, resulting in a blackout nationwide. The national grid shutdown occurred at about 2.19 am this morning, 3rd June 2024.
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“At about 1:15 am this morning, the Benin Transmission Operator under the Independent System Operations unit of TCN reported that all operators were driven away from the control room and that staff that resisted were beaten while some were wounded in the course of forcing them out of the control room and without any form of control or supervision, the Benin Area Control Center was brought to zero.
“Other transmission substations that were shut down by the Labour Union include the Ganmo, Benin, Ayede, Olorunsogo, Akangba and Osogbo Transmission Substations. Some transmission lines were equally opened due to the ongoing activities of the labor union.
“On the power generating side, power generating units from different generating stations were forced to shut down some units of their generating plants, the Jebba Generating Station was forced to shut down one of its generating units while three others in the same substation subsequently shut down on very high frequency. The sudden forced load cuts led to high frequency and system instability, which eventually shut down the national grid at 2:19 am.
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“At about 3.23 am, however, TCN commenced grid recovery, using the Shiroro Substation to attempt to feed the transmission lines supplying bulk electricity to the Katampe Transmission Substation. The situation is such that the labor Union is still obstructing grid recovery nationwide.
“We will continue to make efforts to recover and stabilize the grid to enable the restoration of normal bulk transmission of electricity to distribution load centers nationwide”, the statement reads.
This comes as power workers have promised to shut down the national grid in accordance with organised labor’s indefinite strike.
On June 3, the National Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress declared an indefinite strike in protest of the government’s refusal to enact a new minimum wage and reverse the 240 percent increase in power tariffs that was implemented in April.
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