New developments on electricity in Omdurman and Bahri

Khartoum Governor Ahmed Othman Hamza stressed the importance of tight coordination between the competent authorities that include the regular forces, emergency devices and electricity engineers to restore service as soon as possible.

The governor stood on the damage to these stations, which is the Merkhayat Station, west of Ambda, the Wad Al -Bakhit station, Bakrri, and the Mahdia station, which was feeding the city of Omdurman and Khartoum North, where the targeting resulted in the exit of these stations from the service and the power outages completely from the state and led to a great paralysis in the basic services related to electricity such as water, hospitals and other vital facilities, which exacerbated the suffering of the citizen resulting from the systematic attack One of the rebel militias on the continuous strategic facilities with the aim of disrupting services after the militia failed to confront directly with the armed forces, so I resorted to sabotaging the remaining infrastructure in an attempt to paralyze daily life and deepen the humanitarian crisis in the state.

The governor praised the great efforts made by the Civil Defense Forces in controlling the fire and the speed of response and the high professionalism shown by the civil defense men and contributed greatly to containing the fire and preventing its extension to other areas, which reduced the volume of material losses in addition to the safety of citizens and workers at the site.

The governor of Khartoum saluted the steadfastness of the Sudanese people, who have been bearing the consequences of the war two years ago, adding that the citizen of the technical cadres in the Ministry of Energy and Electricity companies are standing one row to overcome the effects of this targeting and restore services as soon as possible

Engineer Ibrahim Mohamed Adam, Director of the Electricity Transmission Sector in Khartoum State, explained that what happened will be a major challenge in providing electrical supply, especially as it is directly related to water supply and medical services, but the technical teams started immediately to work to repair breakdowns in coordination with the Meroe Dam Administration.

For his part, Major General Dr. Al -Matari Ahmed Al -Quni, Director of Civil Defense, Khartoum State, confirmed that the attack took place simultaneously on several sites, which represented a great challenge, but the rapid response and strong determination of the civil defense men enabled the control of the fire in a short time and Al -Quni considered that targeting electricity stations does not affect electricity alone, but rather a direct targeting of the citizen’s life and complete disruption of services.