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4,000 Workers Sacked, 400 Firms Shut over Unstable Power
Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Kano State chapter has said unstable power supply has led to the closure of over 400 factories and sack of some 400,000 workers who work in the factories.
Alhaji Ali S. Madugu, national vice president, North-West Zone, waxed worriedly and said that unemployment rate in the state was alarming.
Madugu noted that if the government continued to exhibit nonchalance towards the power sector, the country may be doomed economically.
He said that the 400 manufacturing companies in Kano were closed following the inability of the sector to access the required volume of power.
The MAN boss also decried the lack of transparency in the allocation of power to the city, adding that this had made it unbearable for manufacturers in the zone.
Madugu said the data on market activities report in May indicated that Kano zone, which comprises Kano, Jigawa, Niger and Niger Republic, was given 77,047,790 KW/HR.
He said this was about 100 megawatts (MW), representing 3.6 per cent of the total allocation nationwide.