Activities in government offices, health facilities and other sectors have been grounded for days now in Benin City, the Edo State capital, as a result of power outage.
Investigations showed that the power outage was as a result of the non-supply of gas to the Ossiomo Power Company.
The power firm supplied electricity to government buildings, street lights, some private homes, courts, the Edo State Industrial Hub, where several micro, small and medium enterprises, MSMEs, operate, including the secretariat of Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ.
Some of the operators in the Industrial Hub lamented their plight to journalists as they said they had lost fortunes because of power outage, which entered its fourth day on Friday.
It was gathered that surgeries have been stopped at the Edo State government-owned health facilities like primary health centres in the state capital, the Edo State Specialist Hospital and others to avoid deaths.
There was anxiety at the NUJ press centre as the place was out of water supply, which led to the leadership locking all bathrooms and toilets in the complex.
Journalists were stranded as many of them said their phones and laptops were out of power and some of them were sighted trooping to a nearby hotel to power their tools and send reports.
A dealer in frozen food at the Industrial Hub told journalists that “I have lost so much running into millions of naira. We were forced to bury our frozen products that had become unfrozen and were rotting away because we depended on this Ossiomo light.”
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