KADUNA ELECTRIC NEWSLETTER JANUARY EDITION

Kaduna Electric Board to Review Franchising Pilot Scheme
By Asma'u Mohammed
 

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Engineer Garba Haruna has said that the Board of Directors shall review the franchising pilot scheme during the next board meeting scheduled for next week.

He made the assertion on Wednesday during a one-day performance review of the eight (8) Franchisees for the periods July to September and October to December 2019, respectively.

He expressed strong reservation on the marginal improvement in the collection efficiency recorded by the franchisees during the period under review and charged them to redouble their effort for better performance.

“The 2.81% and 5.32% collection efficiency's improvement recorded in the 1st and 2nd phases of the scheme is not worthwhile. Therefore, I charge you to redouble your effort and ensure more significant improvement in the collection efficiency”, he said.

The Managing Director also charged the Franchisees to ensure full customers alignment to the respective DTs and ensure complete enumeration of all electricity users in their franchise area.

He admonished them to ensure that all new captured are send to the billing department immediately and disclosed that the Company would in due cost meter Gwandu and Argungu 33KV feeders in Kebbi State for effective energy accountability.
 

Management, Staff Bid Captain Sanjeev Farewell
By Asma'u Mohammed
 

 

Top Management Executives of the Company led by the Chief Driving Officer, Mr. Rahul Kumar organized a farewell get-together in honor of the former Expert in Capacity Building and Change Management, Captain Sanjeev Kaushik marking the end of his duty tour to Nigeria.

The spokesman of the Company, Abdulazeez Abdullahi described Capt. Sanjeev Kaushik as a hardworking leader who always allow his subordinates to freely express their views and opinions while providing the necessarily guidance.

“we really appreciate all your contributions towards our achievement; your honesty, integrity and loyalty are virtues that each of us should have; you are someone who we always rely on; you will always remain a worthy ambassador of Kaduna Electric; may you grow higher in your new beginning”, he said.

 

The Head of Operations, Engr. Aliyu Abbas also described Captain Sanjeev as a hardworking officer who stops at nothing in ensuring the accomplishments of the set objectives and within the stipulated time.

According to him, “before Capt. Sanjeev came on board, we all knew what the relationship between the Company, the in-house Unions and the Staff was, despites all the challenges he faced, he was able to normalized the relationship which of course you can see now the Company, Staff and Unions operates at the same level. The footprint you left will be with us forever”, he said.

In his remark, Captain Sanjeev Kaushik thanked the Management and the entire staff for the cooperation, understanding and beautiful remarks made about him.

“I am deeply humbled by the honor done to me and most of the speakers’ talk about my positive side, no criticism of my negative part like I take sometimes deliberately take a lot of time studying issues before taking decision  and I am very secretive”.

 “Being in Nigeria is an opportunity for me to interact and learned from you and Nigeria at large, you are the best people I have ever met, if I am to come to Nigeria again, I will wish to come to Kaduna Electric and I urge you to respect people regardless of your position and be committed to your respective duties” he asserted.

Captain Sanjeev who has seen left the country on the 1st January 2020, spend about two years with Kaduna Electric.