Ossiomo Power Company has reported a forceful shut down of its gas facility by the Nigeria Gas Marketing Company (NGMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC).

A statement signed by Adeyinka Ladejobi on behalf of the company said the situation had been escalated to the right quarters to resolve the matter.

He said: “We apologise for this unannounced outage.  This outage is as a result of a forceful shutdown of our gas plant by NGMC without any notice.

“The situation has been escalated accordingly and we shall keep you posted. Thanks.”