The Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos was thrown into darkness on Tuesday and Wednesday due to a burnt power cable.
Findings by our correspondent on
Wednesday revealed that some facilities such as the chillers were not
functioning at the airport due to the problem.
As a result of the power cut, airlines
operating from the international terminal resorted to manual check-in of
passengers as all their systems packed up.
Also, profilers resorted to the use of
torchlight to authenticate the profile of departing passengers, while
workers on the fifth floor of the airport also had to use torchlight to
access their offices.
The outage affected the two foreign
carriers, which landed simultaneously on Wednesday evening at the
airport, Air France and Lufthansa Airlines.
It also led to delays at the baggage
reclaim area as arriving passengers spent over an hour before they could
retrieve their luggage.
However, in a statement on Wednesday,
the General Manager, Corporate Communications, Federal Airports
Authority of Nigeria, Mr. Yakubu Dati, said power supply had been
restored.
He said power was restored on Wednesday.
Dati said in the statement, “The power
outage, which mostly affected the ‘E’ Wing of the terminal, was caused
by an underground armoured cable fault, leading to billowing of smoke in
the affected area.
“The outage did not affect operations at
the terminal, but some services were temporarily shut down to enable
our engineers effect repairs to the damaged cables.
“FAAN regrets any inconvenience the
brief power outage caused airline passengers and operators at the
terminal, and we wish to assure the public that such power outage will
soon become a thing of the past when the power improvement project at
the airport, involving the installation of six ultra modern generators,
is inaugurated.”
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