Abuja: Power Outage Forces Ministers, Workers To Abandon Their Offices

The power situation today forced some Ministers, whose offices are located in the Federal Secretariat by the Eagle Square, Abuja to stay away from work. Other Ministers in the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) wing of the Secretariat, who turned up for work hurriedly left the offices due to darkness. Some of them did not show up at all. With the outage, nothing was working at the Secretariat as computers, air conditioners and other electronic appliances could not be powered. Following the footsteps of the Ministers, some workers at the Secretarial also abandoned their offices. Some of the staff were seen leaving the offices around 12:45 p.m carrying their handbags. Most of the windows in the offices were opened while some staff, who stayed behind, in extremely dark areas without windows made do with rechargeable lamps and torch light from their telephone sets. One staff on her way out of the office, who spoke on a condition of anonymity, said: “What do you think we can do in this circumstance? I don’t blame any staff going home because we are just wasting here. “There is no light and everywhere is dark. I cannot type my work on the computer. So is it not better to go home and do something useful?” She queried.