Niger secretariat in blackout as hoodlums steal cable

The federal secretariat complex in Minna, the Niger State capital has been thrown into darkness by hoodlums who carted away the armoured cable supplying power to the transformer in the area.

It was learnt that the hoodlums had yet to be identified and apprehended by security operatives.
The hoodlums were said to have gained access through the back of the fence of the complex to cart away the electric cable.

Punch correspondent gathered that the federal secretariat had been without power supply for the past two months, thereby paralysing activities in the complex.

Punch, October 6, 2017

 

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