The Governor of Akwa Ibom State Umo Eno has sacked the Managing Director of Ibom Power Company Ltd, Meyen Etukudo, declaring that the sacking is a part of the ongoing restructuring exercise of the government.
Penpushing reports that the Secretary to the Government of Akwa Ibom State, Enobong Uwah, made this known in a statement on Thursday, while it is, however, gathered that government’s decision to sack Etukudo may not be unconnected with the prolonged power outage in Akwa Ibom.
The state has been in darkness for over 20 hours, since Wednesday night, despite having a functional power plant, Ibom Power plant, however, earlier the sacked Managing Director, explained that the outage was caused by the cutting of gas supply to Ibom Power plant by its gas supplier, Savannah Energy, over claims of underpaymemt, and a fault on a transmission line which ought to bring in supply from the national grid to the state.
Penpushing further reports that following the outage, residents and entrepreneurs in Akwa Ibom and environs have resorted to power generating sets to power their homes and businesses under the harsh economy.
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