 The Senate, through its Committee on Power, has questioned the Ministry of Power and Parasitals under its purview about the reason for the insistent greed collapse in the country. Chairman of the Committee on Power, Senator Gabriel Soswan, expressed disappointment over the inadequacy of the ministry to address the occurrence. Our correspondent completes the report. The national greed has collapsed for the third time since the year began. The latest, the ministry said, was caused by vandalism on the Transmission Tower on the Odupane Ikotekpene 330kv double-secute transmission line, leading to a loss of about 400 megawatts of generation. The instability of the greed has led to epileptic power supply leaving parts of the country itself, including Abuja and Lagas without power. Odupane was shot down in the same, as a result of the same problem which caused a loss of 575. The total of that is 4,665. Well, it then means that what the Senate were trying to do is to say that they are not the cause of the system collapse. I'm really finding it difficult to see or to hear that we have so many greed failures over a period of some years now. And yet, as policy makers, you didn't sit down to articulate a position that would address these issues. Delegations from the ministry speak. If all of a sudden, for instance, there has been a storming weather and, you know, an appreciable quantum of power is lost due to massive feeder tripping. Feeder tripping when in your home you no longer have supply just because it is straight into rain. This can create another problem. And when this happens, the frequency will rise and will have instability issues. First problem on the grid, one of the problems, vandalization. And we are putting in place a new technology driven surveillance. Actually, we have a pilot phase just to start from Lukuja to 330 KV. That's practical actions on what we are doing. The power ministry said the outage had occurred overnight as a result of vandalism. It gave no estimate of when the grid, which says around 117 million people, would be back in full operation. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.