For the second week, most ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government located in the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, have been without electricity supply from the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).
Investigation showed that most of the MDAs are heavily indebted to the AEDC, which forced the power firm to disconnect them after several reminders, including publishing such debtors on some national dailies.
Last Thursday, LEADERSHIP exclusively published that the power outage had hit the secretariat for one week.
When our correspondents visited the secretariat yesterday, the situation had not changed as the affected MDAs were still in darkness.
It was learnt that the situation forced some ministers and other top officials to work from home.
Some workers who spoke with our correspondents yesterday lamented that the outage had been allowed to enter the second week, making them completely unproductive in their offices.
A senior director in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation who preferred anonymity said that the office was not experiencing the outage because of the solar system installed by the Head of Service.
He said that most major offices attached to the Office of the Head of Civil Service were connected to solar power to avoid redundancy in the office.
āThe only areas in Block A and C that have electricity supply from the solar system is the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, but others that are not attached to it are in complete darkness, except you can afford to buy fuel or diesel for your generator,ā he said.
However, some senior civil servants who have offices on the second and third floors of Block A and C, which host the Office of the Head of Civil Service, said that they could no longer stay inside their offices to work because of the prolonged power failure.
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