Boko Haram: NNPC sets to end over 9 month’s blackout in Maiduguri

Boko Haram: NNPC sets to end over 9 month’s blackout in Maiduguri

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is set to officially commence the construction of a 50 megawatt gas turbine power plant that is expected to generate electricity to the city of Maiduguri and environs after Boko Haram insurgency denied the people electricity supply since January 2021.

The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari has joined the Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum to perform the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Maiduguri & Environs Emergency Power Project (MEPP).

The ceremony which officially marks the commencement of the construction of a 50-megawatt gas turbine power plant is expected to generate electricity to the city of Maiduguri, Borno State, and environs.

The MEPP is a Federal Government intervention strategy in tackling the perpetual power outage in Maiduguri, caused mostly as a result of incessant vandalism of critical power infrastructure by the ongoing terrorists’ activities in the northeast region.

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The plant which is to be powered by gas was earlier approved by the federal government as an intervention strategy in tackling the perpetual power outage in Maiduguri, the state capital.

Recalled in April this year, the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mele Kyari, had during an official visit to the Borno state government house, announced a plan by Abuja to establish an emergency power plant as a long time solution to the incessant attacks and destruction on power lines by the Boko Haram insurgents.

The NNPC had on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 engaged with China Machinery Engineering Company, CMEC, and General Electric, GE, to provide 50 Megawatts of electricity to Maiduguri, Borno State.

Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, had been without electricity since January following Boko Haram attacks on supply lines along the Maiduguri, Damaturu road.

The group managing director NNPC, Mele Kyari had in April 2021 led a management team of the corporation to Borno where he told the government that everything was set for the gas turbine that would be completed in four months. 

Boko Haram: NNPC sets to end over 9 month’s blackout in Maiduguri