According to reports, Murtala Mohammed
International Airport, Nigeria’s busiest, has been devoid of electricity since
Tuesday due to a power outage. The outage apparently resulted after the main
power cable leading to the airport was overloaded and subsequently damaged. Airlines
operating in the terminal have reportedly resorted
to manual check-in of passengers as all the systems packed up because of the
outage.
As at yesterday, all facilities at the
airport, including the chillers, were still not working. It was also gathered
that profilers resorted to the use of torchlight to profile departing
passengers while workers on the fifth floor also used torchlight to access
their offices. Besides, the power outage affected the two foreign carriers,
which landed simultaneously at the airport, Air France and Lufthansa Airlines.
But the General Manager, Corporate
Communications, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Mr. Yakubu Dati,
said power supply had been restored at the airport. He said: “The power outage,
which mostly affected the ‘E’ Wing of the terminal, was caused by an
underground armoured cable fault, leading to billowing of smoke in the affected
area.
“The outage did not affect operations at
the terminal, but some services were temporarily shut down to enable our
engineers effect repairs to the damaged cables. “FAAN regrets any inconvenience
the brief power outage caused airline passengers and operators at the terminal.
“The authority wishes to assure the public that such power outage will soon
become a thing of the past when the power improvement project at the airport,
involving the installation of six ultramodern generators, is commissioned.
“The new generators are being test run
and will soon be commissioned.”
No comments:
Post a Comment