Engineer Michael Ezugwu,a consultant in power systems and energy management,has advised the Nigerian military to establish a mini electric power generating plant for all their barracks and operational bases in order to avert recurring clashes with electricity workers in the country.
He gave the suggestion against the latest soldiers attack on the office of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company in Badagry, Lagos State over a power outage.
The attack came a week after officers and men of the Nigerian Air Force from the Sam Ethnan Air Force Base in Ikeja attacked the headquarters of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company in Alausa, Lagos, brutalising staff and journalists while also vandalising property worth billions of naira.
Engineer Ezugwu told PREMIUM NEWS on Monday that with the new law, the military can get all regulatory conditions and build a power plant that can take care of their energy requirements because the peculiarity and nature of their work needs dedication and commitment of power supply.
The military can make a special request by applying for dedicated 33kV feeder from nearby 132/33kV Transmission Station into their barracks and other operational bases.
Ezugwu, a former General Manager, Network Planning and Design, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, also advised that this should be done through 33kV underground circuitry to avoid tapping or teeing off from the feeder.
By this approach they sort the operational and administrative logistics with the Transmission Company,he said.
He added:”By implementing either of the suggestions, the military will have and manage a robust power supply system without headache to anybody. Their job doesn’t need interruption for whatever reason(s)”.
Confirming the latest military, electricity workers clash, the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, Sunday Oduntan, had said:“While we are yet to recover from the brutalisation of Ikeja Electric staff and vandalisation of the head office by the Nigerian Air Force, the Nigerian Army has invaded the Eko Disco’s Injection Substation in Badagry at 1 am on the 14th of March 2025″.
He said they abducted two members of our staff and took them to their barracks at the Nigerian Army 15th Field Engineers Regiment at Topo Town in Badagry.
