The Federal Government on Tuesday said its efforts to supply electricity were being constrained by sabotage and willful damage of power installations across the country.
Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, said this while hosting the Paramount Ruler of Ipetu-ijesa Kingdom of Osun State, Oba Samsom Agunbiade.
Mamman in a statement issued in Abuja by his media aide, Aaron Artimas, called on Nigerians to protect public utilities as the best guarantee of ensuring steady and uninterrupted electricity supply to their various areas.
He was quoted as saying, “People should raise the alarm and report to security officials whenever they see those tampering with power equipment.”
The minister said he was greatly pained by the recent destruction of the power tower supplying electricity to Maiduguri, Borno State.
The tower was recently restored by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, but it was bombed again by insurgents.
