Power outage in Muritala Muhammad Airport, passengers stranded

An outage in power that occurred at a section of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos left many passengers stranded on Friday night.

The departure lounge of the International Airport was the most affected on Friday night from report gathered.

A passenger whose name is Ayodele said that,“I suffered while boarding. Power just suddenly went off,” a passenger identified as Ayodele, said.

General Manager, Corporate Affairs of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, when questioned about the incidence on Saturday, she said it was “natural occurrence” for the power outage. Explaining that the incident happened past 11pm on Friday.

She power was restored less than one hour after the incident.

She said, “The response time was fast. The power outage was caused by heavy rainfall. It only affected a section of the airport.

“We called Ejigbo branch of the power company but the problem couldn’t be fixed immediately because of the rain.”

Hope-Ivbaze cleared the air about reports that the airport has been suffering terrible power supply for the past two days, she  said it’s very un true.

The airport’s General Manager, Victoria Shin-Aba, said, “At exactly 11:15 p.m. yesterday nite (Saturday), one of our feeders developed a fault as a result of the rain which tripped the main supply.

“In an attempt to go and put on generator, another feeder, k20, tripped the generator off. Ejigbo supply was available but on a high voltage. We then got in contact with the man on duty at Ejigbo but he could not help as a result of the rain.
“It took a while to restore the power because there was only one man on duty and the operation was overwhelming to perform within a short time. It took the Ejigbo duty officer to call the area control to help stabilise the voltage.

“However, all other generator at the terminal were in operations. At the moment, We are already on ground to troubleshoot the two faulty feeders.”