Thursday 26 March 2020

MEET THE STAFF SERIES


The Management and the Staff Should Not Work at Cross Purpose - Ahmed Abubakar

CCD: Briefly tell us about yourself?
AA: My name is Ahmed Abubakar. I am from Gusau in Zamfara State. It's did my Primary School in Gusau and proceeded to Sokoto State for my Secondary School and then to Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto for both my Bsc and Msc degrees in Political Science.

CCD: When did you join the Company and what is your primary assignment?
AA: My primary assignment is to ensure proper distribution of energy to the end customers, I was an employee of NEPA to PHCN as a Distribution System Operator (DSO). I have had course to undergo trainings on electrical installations and appliances, flow of energy, communication techniques, etc.

CCD: Please tell us more about the aspects of your responsibility and how do you manage it?
AA: My responsibility is to ensure effective and steady supply distribution to the end customers/consumers; other responsibilities includes switching of electrical appliances and apparatus, ensuring safety is maintained to both the equipment’s and personnel while discharging their  responsibilities, mentorship to subordinates and advises for proper execution of all operational activities. I also ensures that safety is maintained through the application of standard protection codes (SPOs), Job analysis and design (JAD) and health and safety

CCD: One of the reasons for low performance is revenue leakages. How do you   plugging revenue leakages and to serves as a road map that provides direction to the business?
AA: No doubt, one of the ways to ensure revenue protection is proper networking to avoid loses and prompt metering and effective and efficient billing. Revenue leakages in electricity industry isn't a new phenomenon and cannot be underestimated. Part of the leakages in this firm is energy theft, defective metering, and to stop these mishaps we need rigorous public enlightenment and involvement of security agencies and all other stakeholders in stopping energy theft. On the side of the company is to ensure proper metering and billing through daily enumerations and correct data base.

CCD: What do you think will help in creating mutual beneficial relationship between the Company and the customers?
AA: The only way to achieve this is by giving them our enough and efficient services. Our commodity is in high demand and as long as we are able to satisfy our customers, which in return through proper billing such commodity sales will be recovered with rigorous and scientific application of how to get our money back.

CCD: Teamwork is the collaborative effort and one of the core values of the organization. How do we put it into practice to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way?
AA: Team work is indeed the key point in achieving desired goals. We should ensure that no communication gap exist between me and my colleagues which gave us hindsight in dealing with whatever situation we arrived at. We should understand our responsibilities, each should know his boundaries and stick to them in our routine activities.

CCD: Any appeal or suggestion to staff or Management?
AA: My appeal to the Management is to find cordial ways to harmonise and cement the management/staff relationship. The Management should motivate the staff, provide enough tools and working equipment’s. We should remember that no progress can be recorded without cordial relationship. Can a dog eat from hyena's plate? Definitely, no, why? Because they are not of the same family. In this regards we need to emulate and embrace one another with positive mind and passion, because only through these qualities that we progress and achieve a set target. The Management shouldn't behave like hyenas while the staff should behave as drinking water. In a nutshell, give Cesar what belongs to Cesar...

Friday 20 March 2020

KADUNA ELECTRIC NEWSLETTER MARCH EDITION


Kaduna Electric Female Staff Celebrate International Women’s Day, Resolve to Take Action For Equality
 By Asmau Mohammed


The female workers of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company joined their counterparts from across the world to celebrate this year's International Women's Day with the theme “I am generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Right” with a round table discussion held on Tuesday, 10th March, 2020.


The United Nations has set aside the 8th day of March every year as the International Women’s Day to create awareness on the plight of women globally and generate discussion on how best the women folk could be more productive and equal citizens of the world as their male counterparts.

Off course this year was not different and  the theme: “I am generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Right”,  shines the spotlight on the imbalance in most public and private organizations, where the females workers only occupy 10% of the available positions and often faced with numerous challenges such as conscious bias, discrimination and gender misrepresentation among others.

It was in a bid to address these issues that Organizational Development and Design Unit organized a round table meeting for all the female staff; the event focused on individual actions, discussions, behavior and mindset that will accelerate progress of women across all spheres of life with particular emphasis on the power industry.

The meeting was chaired by the Chief Technical Services, Engr. Bello Musa, who appreciated the women and called on  them to go the extra miles to achieve the impossible things.

“I have admiration for women that is why I married 3 wives and  I believed with them behind me, I am a successful. In the last year's Awards Nite, the women carted away most of the awards. For example, during the last MD’s award, Engr. Asma’u Ahmed, the only female Area Manager then, collected almost all the trophies and she was the overall best”, he said.

In his contributions the Chief Marketing and Revenue Assurance, Mal Ibrahim Abubakar Jimeta, described a ''woman as supporter, motivator and a good organiser; any responsible man must respect a woman because there is always a woman behind any successful man; there is nothing you can not do but you have to take the challenge, don’t hide yourself;  you can do better than what you are going right now, just open your eyes and take the opportunities”.

In her contribution, the Company Secretary, Bar. Maryam Usman Mohammed described the event as a good one as it would positively explore the huge potentials women’s existing in Kaduna Electric have.

Bar. Maryam shared part of her life history; how she handles challenge, proffer solutions, and uses all opportunities.

The Head, OD&D, Adeola Akanni appreciated all the women in the Company and charged the female staff to brace up and face the challenges as their male counterpart.

''I must admit that women are not doing well in this company not because we are incapable, rather we always tend to limit ourselves and hardly utilizes our opportunities, I believe you have the required talent to turn things around, with that I urge you to challenge yourself we need women at the higher levels,” she said.


Kaduna Electric Adds Colour to Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival
 By Najib Muhammad Atuwo





The presence of Kaduna Electric at the just concluded Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival has added many sparkling experiences to the historic events.

The Managing Director/CEO of the Company who is also the holder of the prestigious title of Garkuwan Kanta, Engr. Garba Haruna, participated in the two durbars, riding right in front of the Emir's horse.

True to his title of generalissimo, the Garkuwan Kabbi rode in front of the Emir holding a silver made sword on his right hand and a golden coloured traditional armour on the left hand.

The Company also sponsored eight competitions as part of its modest contributions towards the success of the festival in particular and development of tourism in general.

The competitions sponsored by Kaduna Electric included
Archery, Camel Race,
Boys bare hands fishing, Girls bare hands fishing, Water relays, Save our souls, Diving, Wild duck catching and Men Swimming with gourd competitions.

The first prize of each of the above categories went home with a brand new Motorcycle and cash prize of fifty thousand naira each, while the second positions went home with brand new 32” TV set, some Refrigerators and some a brand new Pumping Machine. The third positions were given a Prepaid Meter with a token of ten thousand naira each courtesy of Kaduna Electric.

On the forth day which was the grand finale of festival, about ten thousand fishermen from across the country and neighbouring Niger and Chad Republic participated in the event.

Kaduna Electric showered the first, second and third positions winners with cash prizes of one million naira, seven hundred and fifty thousand naira and five hundred thousand naira respectively.

Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival is a historic festival that usually take place every year in ancient town of Argungu. It would be recalled that the festival was suspended for over a decade due to security challenges in the country.

The event was a colorful one and was attended by both national and international dignitaries.



Kaduna Electric Football Club Celebrates Fourth Anniversary, Hosts Friendly Match With Kano Pillars
 By Danjuma Abubakar





As part of the fourth anniversary celebration of the Kaduna Electric football Club, the electricity team played a goalless draw with the visiting Kano Pillars Feeder Team.

The highly entertaining friendly match was played at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on Thursday March 19, 2020.

Players of both teams showcased their dexterity in the round leather game with many thrilling football skills and anxious moments.

Kaduna Electric enjoyed more ball possession in the first half, but the visitors dictated the pace of the game towards the end of the match.

Speaking to newsmen at the end of the game, Chairman Kaduna Electric FC who is also the Chief Franchising and Customers Services, Murtala Bello said the visitors were able to escape with the draw because they have a good team.

"we would have won by 3-0 but for chances that were not converted," he lamented.

"The interesting thing is that the team comprises solely of staff of Kaduna Electric," he said.

He further assured that their coaches will work on the attack, seeing that they lost a lot of chances at goal.

He said that they decided to float the team bearing in mind the importance of sports to wellbeing of their staff.

"If you look at the way we played today, it was great, we hope to play in the league in the future.
"We believe sports contributes to health and output," he said.