Power cuts persist in Yaoundé

Inconvenience, caused by the breakdown of a transformer at the Oyomabang plant (located in the North of the city), has kept Yaoundé in the dark for ten days.

Eneo Cameroon S.A, the company responsible for the distribution electricity in Cameroon, proceeded to the distribution of power by sectors thereby forcing employees of several companies to observe long breaks.

However, inhabitants of the capital city believed the power cuts were over. In this regard, Eneo Cameroon S.A made a press release on September 25 announcing the "return to normal of the southern interconnection”.

The release included the reasons for the cuts which occurred on Friday, September 25. It stated that "a lightning strike, which damaged the Magombe interconnected post, was the cause of this incident. This caused the complete break of the post. Therefore, all transport works, as well as production plants attached to this post were down.”

In its September 29, 2015 edition, Le Mutations dwelled on this incident and indicated that by declaring the "return to normal", Eneo officials recalled the promptness with which the work had been done on the network that supplies the of Centre, littoral, Northwest, South, Southwest, West and part of the East Regions: “Troubleshooting maneuvers allowed the gradual resumption of the service as early as 10:09 am (25 September).”

The last lines of transport were replenished at 1:15 pm, putting an end to this major incident. “An explanation which is contradictory with the facts according to the newspaper. At the end of the 'major incident', neighbourhoods in Yaoundé were in the dark," wrote Mutations.

The daily also stressed that the signed release by the technical Central Director also recalled that “any other concern in an area could be due to a localized incident. Customers in this situation have been urged to call the 8010, Eneo Cameroon’s customer care line.”

Information by an Eneo official who was contacted via the telephone by the newspaper "asked customers to call the 8010 if they encountered any problem. This is because the problem may be a fault from the transformer of a neighbourhood or a cable may have been disconnected."