Power outages paralysed activities at the international terminal of the
Murtala Muhammed Airport on Monday night and paralysed facilitation
activities the body handling the airport has attributed this to thunderstorm even as an apology is tendered for all the inconveniences caused.
In a statement signed by the General Manager, Corporate Communications,
Yakubu Dati...
the agency explained that disruption of power supply from
the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) led to surge, which caused
the outages that happened three times; the last one lasting over an hour
in some parts of the terminal.
“The airport is connected to two main power sources from Ejigbo and
Egbin power stations. The storm initially knocked off the power supply
from Ejigbo, which led to a three-minute outage at the airport before
our engineers switched over to the alternate power supply source from
Egbin. That supply line was later affected by the storm, leading to
another three minute power outage ...then switched over to the airport’s
standby generators, some panels of which were unfortunately soaked with
water, due to the heavy flooding that resulted from the heavy rainfall... this resulted in a blackout at the ‘E’ wing of the airport, including
the avio bridges. It was for this reason that arriving passengers on an
international flight were processed through an alternative route at the
terminal and in the process, were exposed momentarily to the rain... to enable our engineers rectify the
faults in the generators. Full power supply was later restored to the
airport and all operations resumed in earnest. There were no accidents
or injuries to anybody at the airport as a result of the power outage... The Authority sincerely apologises to all airport users, especially
passengers and airline operators, for that power outage and deeply
regrets any inconvenience caused them, as a result of the incident".
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