Terrorist TPLF causes over half a billion birr electricity damage

Addis Ababa, August 15, 2021 (FBC) –Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) announced that the terrorist TPLF remnants have damaged over half a billion birr worth electricity infrastructure within the past months.

Targeting at isolating the Tigray people from the Ethiopian government, TPLF has destroyed grand infrastructures amounting to over a billion centering telecom, electricity, road, airports, and water supply, among others.

EEP Communication Director, Moges Mekonnen told EH that the terrorist TPLF remnants are engaged in damaging infrastructure especially electricity lines in Tigray state to isolate the Tigray people from the Ethiopian government.

As to him, the terrorist group members, activists, and apologists intentionally disseminate fake information and fabricated propaganda about the damaged infrastructure so as to confuse the Tigray people and the international community.

From the beginning, the terrorist group damaged electric sub-stations, conductors, towers, insulators and other EEP properties in November, 2020 that caused 70 million birr damages on infrastructure only, he said.

He said, “The Ethiopian Electric Power has done immediate maintenance on the electric transmission lines to Tigray with an outlay of 240.2 million Birr after the first attack on the Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) with a view to access all Tigrayns with electricity.”

However, the terrorist group has managed to damage the renewed transmission lines again and caused further destruction.

In addition, the country has lost more than 245 million KWH of energy (146.2 million Birr) following the TPLF’s attack on the Tekeze Dam power transmission lines to the national grid, according to him.

Moreover, the terrorist remnants damaged the Wolkait and Humera substations that are still out of service as they require sophisticated materials imported from abroad for restoration.

“The immense damage caused by the terrorist TPLF has seriously hampered the institution’s plan of expanding electricity supply to the unreached areas of the country and undertaking further infrastructural interconnections during the previous Ethiopian budget year. The TPLF Juntas exposed the Tigray people to severe socio-economic trauma emanating from lack of energy,” he said.

Accordingly, EEP is ready to rehabilitate the electric transmissions lines as soon as peace is restored in the area. Besides, there is no international principle that forces electricity experts to undertake rehabilitation works amid a war front, he stressed.