Police authorities in Lanao del Sur believed the bomb attack
on steel towers of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in Marawi City
Senior Supt. Seigfred Ramos, Lanao del Sur police provincial
director, said the latest bomb attack on NGCP steel pylon in Sitio Karomatan,
Barangay Matampay, Marawi City did not topple down the tower but affected the
flow of power to the Mindanao grid.
“Our investigation showed that the real owner of a lot where
the tower stands was not paid by NGCP. Instead, another claimant allegedly
received the claims,” Ramos said.
He said this is a right of way (ROW) issue that has been
hounding NGCP in most parts of Mindanao .
Bomb experts found components of 81 mm mortar made into an
improvised bomb at the foot of steel tower No. 13.
On Oct. 29, IEDs toppled NCGP’s steel towers 19 and 20 in
Sugod, Barangay Patani, Marawi City , causing power outages in wide areas of Mindanao , also because of ROW issue.
Ramos said NGCP representatives are now attending to the
issue even as the police urged locals to help secure the power lines.
Meanwhile, Milfrance Capulong, communications officer of
NGCP-Southern Mindanao, said as a result of the bombings in Marawi City ,
two state owned power plants in Lanao del Sur are still isolated from the Mindanao grid.
Capulong said Agus-1 and Agus-2 hydro-electric power plants
run by the National Power Corporation (Napocor) in Lanao del Sur remained
separated thus limited power supplies were transmitted to the grid for the past
week.
This scenario forced power distributors to implement power
rationing of two to three hours daily in most parts of Mindanao
the past 10 days.
Capulong said it would cost almost Php2 million for NGCP to
repair toppled steel towers. She described the bombings of steel towers as
economic sabotage.
The Marawi City bombing was the 10th steel tower in Mindanao subjected to explosion by lawless elements. Beside
the Marawi incidents, seven other bombing cases have hit NGCP towers in North Cotabto and Maguindanao since January.
After the Marawi bombing, Elizabeth Ladaga, NGCP corporate
communications officer for Northern Mindanao, urged the government security forces
and local officials to help secure the power lines to prevent outages in Mindanao .
The security and ROW issues if remained unresolved will also
affected regular power consumers. Toppled towers can be classified as systems
loss by the NGCP where its costs are passed on to end-consumers.
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