By Udeme Akpan
Aba Power has assured residents and businesses in the Aba Ring-fenced Area that electricity supply will be restored before the end of the week following progress in efforts to resolve the gas supply disruption that plunged the area into darkness.
The assurance came as members of the Abia State House of Assembly Committee on Power and Public Utilities visited the company to assess the situation behind the prolonged outage affecting nine of the state’s 17 local government areas.
Chairman of Aba Power and former Minister of Power, Bart Nnaji, told the lawmakers that supply would resume once a critical component of the gas pressure system is installed.
According to him, the component—a Clutch Gear and Starter Motor—has arrived in Nigeria after being sourced from the United States by Heirs Energies, the operator of Oil Mining Lease (OML) 17 and gas supplier to the 188-megawatt Geometric Power Plant in Osisioma, Aba.
