Nigeria’s power and rail infrastructure are the most attacked infrastructures in Nigeria in the last three years.
This was disclosed in a report by a socioeconomic research firm, SBM intelligence, on Monday titled, “Attacks on infrastructure in Nigeria.”
The report comes as the Federal Government blamed the grid collapse on an act of vandalism on a transmission tower on the Odukpani-Ikot Ekpene 330KV double circuit transmission.
What the report is saying
The report revealed that from Q3 2019 to Q1 2022, Nigerian power generation plants suffered 6 attacks in the state of Borno alone.
In the North West, Kaduna State has experienced 5 train attacks and 2 airport attacks for the same period.
The Federal capital territory has also experienced a train attack at the Bwari area during the same period.
Meanwhile, Niger State has experienced a rail attack and a factory attack for the same period.
In the south, Lagos State experienced an attack on its rail and infrastructure, while the data for the South-South region revealed, attacks in a factory in Edo state, and pipeline attacks in Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa Ibom States.
