Power Outage Grounds Businesses In Kaduna

The continued powerfulness outage successful Kaduna metropolis and its environs has grounded businesses arsenic residents number losses.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) confirmed the outage, saying Tower 7 on the Kaduna Town lines I and II successful the Rigasa assemblage collapsed owed to a dense downpour and windstorm.

TCN said its men were moving tirelessly to reconstruct the powerfulness proviso to immoderate affected parts of Kaduna city.

However, speaking with immoderate of the Kaduna concern owners and residents, they lamented that galore residents and concern owners were suffering owed to the powerfulness outage.

A food depot proprietor astatine Television Market, Gambo Henry, explained however the powerfulness outage has crippled his business, “I stocked crystal food successful ample quantities, but fractional of it spoiled arsenic nary airy to powerfulness my refrigerators. I don’t person large generator to powerfulness the heavy freezers. It is unfortunate and bittersweet story. I mislaid much than fractional of my capital. Transmission Company should enactment hard to reconstruct light.”

Another concern owner, Emeka Chima, who operates a laundry store successful Sabon Tasha, lamented, “For astir 1 week now, determination is nary airy crossed Kaduna town. I collected a batch of enactment from my customers but nary mode for maine to robust it and springiness backmost to them. There is nary mode I tin run this laundry concern precise good without light. I person been similar this without enactment to bash due to the fact that of airy issue.”

Anthony Samuel, who charges phones for his customers, said helium made astir N10,000 per day. “I americium utilizing my generator to complaint people’s phones arsenic Kaduna doesn’t person airy now. Over 100 radical complaint their phones successful my store astir each day. I’m making a batch of money, similar N10,000 per day,” helium said.

Also, residents of Ungwa Maigero and Narayi communities successful Chikun section authorities country person expressed vexation implicit the continued powerfulness outage successful the area.

A food seller successful Narayi, who identified herself arsenic Ene Faith, lamented the situation, saying she mislaid implicit 5 cartons of food owed to the blackout.

Similarly, Mrs. Bukola Victoria told LEADERSHIP that for much than six days immoderate residents person been incapable to pump water.

“We person not pumped h2o for implicit six days. We don’t person a generator, and adjacent if we have, determination is nary wealth to bargain fuel. We beryllium connected neighbours who sometimes usage generators to pump water”.

Also speaking, Mr. Yunusa Abubakar, a welder astatine Sabo, decried the outage, noting that helium had been incapable to enactment for the past 5 days, resulting successful a nonaccomplishment of income.