‘Faulty generator’: Power outage forces senate to delay commencement of plenary

When the sitting began, Akpabio said the parts of the
building were experiencing technical issues.

“The light… they are still working on it. It went off since
morning. It is even affecting some of the offices on the fourth floor,” he
said.

“We have about nine offices that they have not been able to
rectify but they are working on it. They have assured us that before 1 o’clock,
the light will be okay.

 “However, I have
noticed even, the press, some of them are fanning themselves. At least they
feel the heat also.

“If it gets too hot then we may have to adjourn for a while
to allow them to conclude but they are working on it.”

On his part, Sunday Karimi, chairman of the senate committee
on services, said the outage was due to a fault in the generator that powers
the building.

“It is an uncommon incident. Since the 10th Assembly, we
have not heard this kind of experience. Often when we are sitting, we use the
generator,” Karimi said.

 “Unfortunately today,
our generator developed a fault. It has nothing to do with the fuel issue. So,
it was time to switch to the second generator used by the House of
Representatives.”