Aba Blackout Worsens: FENRAD Demands Urgent Action as Businesses Suffer
Aba Blackout Worsens: FENRAD Demands Urgent Action as Businesses Suffer Thousands of households and businesses across Aba, the business ban of Abia State, have been thrown into darkness following a major disruption in gas supply to the Geometric Power Plant. As economic activities grind to a halt, civil society group FENRAD is demanding urgent intervention, warning that the prolonged blackout is exposing serious weaknesses in the Aba Ring-Fence electricity system. Aba and nine local government areas under the Aba Ring-Fence lost electricity after a disruption in natural gas supply reduced operations at the 188MW Geometric Power Plant in Osisioma. FENRAD…