The fire incident according to the Company started from a 415 volts Three Phase Service (recklyne) cable on a plastics dump site close to the affected tower.
General Manager Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah in a statement issued in Abuja explained that the burning recklyne cable belonging to EEDC caught fire during the night, thus setting the plastics dump by tower base ablaze.
It said although the tower is bent by the incident, it is being supported on both sides by Tension Towers No 4 and 7 which are highly reinforced towers in conjunction with Suspension tower No 6 in between.
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“TCN’s engineers are already on the ground to anchor the affected tower as a remedial measure to prevent it from completely collapsing as that would pull down other towers along the same transmission line route,” the statement partly reads.
TCN noted that presently, it is temporarily supplying electricity to Asaba from its Benin – Asaba 330kV transmission line until it completes anchoring the damaged Tower 5 in Onitsha.
As a result, the company appealed to members of the public to desist from using Transmission Right of Way (RoW) for any kind of business, to prevent similar avoidable occurrences which causes huge financial loss and inconveniences including danger to life and properties.
In another development, the Company lamented the incessant vandalism of transmission infrastructure as this has continued to hinder the progress of the transmission expansion programme.
It said this on the heels of an arrest of four suspected vandals connected with the vandalism of its transmission towers in Ajuwa area of Katsina State, leading which to the collapse of Towers 70 and 71 along Katsina – Daura 132kV transmission line.
The suspects who were arrested by the Katsina State Police Command also tampered with the tower members of twenty-two other towers along the transmission line route.
The transmission company also lamented that aside from the two towers that collapsed completely, two others; Towers 66 and 67 on the same route, were in critical condition due to vandalism and would have to be rehabilitated urgently by the contractor.
“TCN engineers, who carried out a thorough patrol of the transmission line route after the incidence, noted that the vandals wrecked more havoc on towers around Rimi, Batagarawa and Mani Local Government Areas of the State.
“Vandalism of transmission towers in this axis had become worrisome and anti-productive as it is working against the company’s’ grid expansion programme, TCN spends millions of Naira to replace and restore electricity equipment stolen or destroyed by vandals which should be put into grid expansion,” the statement reads.
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