The personnel that include the Army, Navy, and police said there is no power supply in their barracks to charge their phones and contact their family, a situation which they said is currently affecting their morale.
Some military personnel attached to Operation Fassan Yamma at team 3, Magami, Dangulubi, Bindin in Zamfara State have lamented that they have not be able to contact their family members over the blackout in part of northern Nigeria.
The personnel that include the Army, Navy, and police said there is no power supply in their barracks to charge their phones and contact their family, a situation which they said is currently affecting their morale.
One of the personnel who spoke with SaharaReporters on Wednesday noted that their commander advised them to go and buy “power bank”, saying that he did n’t have money to fuel into the generator for them.
“Army, Navy, Police officers deployed at operation Fassan yamma at team 3 Magami, Dangulubi, Bindin are suffering from poor feeding and there’s no light for them to charge their phones for them to contact their family.
“The commander of team 3 advised the personnel to go and buy power bank that he doesn’t have money to fuel the generator for them. Also the personnel have been suffering the routine poor feeding,” another source added.
SaharaReporters had reported that due to the week-long blackout in Gombe, Jigawa, and Bauchi states, a bag of rice now cost between N120,000 and N160,000, compared to the previous range of N110,000 to N150,000.
The prolonged outage, attributed to vandalism of power transmission lines, had left business owners across these states struggling and affected crucial services, including healthcare, water, sanitation, and street lighting.
Rice millers in Gombe expressed the severe impact of the blackout on their operations. Musa Arab, a miller from Nassarawo Industrial Layout, had noted, “We must invest in power because it is the biggest determining factor for industries to thrive.”
He had explained that high fuel costs made it impossible to rely on generators, causing mills to reduce rice supplies, which in turn threatens food security.
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