Power Cuts in Nine Regions While Unions Protest

The row between Kib-Tek management and the electrical workers’ union El-Sen has escalated after wide ranging power cuts occurred across the country yesterday morning, Yeniduzen reports Kib-Tek insists that there had been “sabotage“, while El-Sen says that there were malfunctions in four generators at the Teknecik Power Station because of  a “lack of investment“.Meanwhile, nine regions across North Cyprus still have no electricity.Kib-Tek Chairman of the Board Hüseyin Pasha told Yeniduzen that the state electricity authority was not responsible for the power cuts, repeating his claim that they had “probably resulted from external interventions“.El-Sen, which began acts of civil disobedience yesterday in protest against the Public Procurement Amendment Bill, which it described as the “law of donating to AKSA”, carried out an act of civil disobedience. The union denied responsibility for the power cuts, blaming the government for lack of investment in Kib-Tek.