NEMSA Warns DISCOs Against Use of Wooden Electricity Poles

The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) has warned Distribution Companies of Nigeria (DISCOs) to stop the use of wooden poles in their operations. They also cautioned them against bad “networks” installation, which it said had been responsible for electrical accidents that have claimed several lives.

Managing Director/ C.E.O and Chief Electrical Inspector of the Federation (NEMSA), Mr. Peter Ewesor, who was in Benin City, on a sensitization tour and visit to the DISCOs, also closed down shops in the business of selling wooden poles in the state, assuring that persons dealing in substandard, electrical systems, particularly wooden poles will be arrested and prosecuted.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for the probe of immediate past Chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi over his comment on the 45 per cent increase on electricity tariff.

NLC said it is disgusted by the development and is accordingly calling on the relevant agencies to probe not just the tenure of Amadi at NERC but the entire privatisation process of the power sector, which he stage-managed, adding that NLC is also keen to know his (Amadi) relationship with some of the DISCOs for whom he has become chief spokesman.