VANDALISM POSES SERIOUS THREAT TO POWER SUPPY IN ZAMFARA STATE
The Regional Manager of
Zamfara Regional Office, Comrade Abdulrasheed Muhammad has described vandalism
of power supply infrastructure in the State as “the greatest factor responsible
for supply instability and a serious threat to security.
He made this assertion during
an engagement with traditional rulers, Islamic Scholars and security agencies
in Gusau Emirate Council recently.
He stressed that the
engagement is an avenue for listening and providing a tailored solution
concerning vandalism, this he said, can simply be achieved through listening to
customers complaints.
According to him, “vandalism of public utilities is a criminal offence, it follows that the people who engages in those nefarious activities do so for the same reason many other criminal activities are perpetrated, the attitude of people towards organizational property is erroneous, this does not help matters in the society and one of its major factors contributed to the vandalism and helps hinder qualitative services delivery and cost loses to the organization as a revenue entity”.
He further noted that the Company
in collaboration with security agencies and members of the Emirate Council
should device ways of handling and curbing vandalism, theft and destruction of
the Company’s property.
He solicited the help of
Emirate Council, religious leaders and security agencies to enlighten society
and report any suspicious activity to Kaduna Electric or to security agencies.
In his address, the Emir of
Katsinan Gusau, Alhaji Ibrahim Bello described the engagement as a development
that gives total recognition to the royal fathers.
He further noted that vandalism
of power supply infrastructure could not be made possible without the
involvement of people who possesses the technical skills to install or
dismantle transformers.
“The organization should not
give any access to unauthorized staff to its property because this gives
opportunities to vandals”, he said.
He further stressed that the
organization should improve the capability, capacity, productivity and
performance of staff by training them in accordance with regular practice or
procedure.
He pledged the support of the
Emirate Council to the on-going campaign against vandalism. “The Emirate
Council is ready to give its assistance to Kaduna Electric to accomplish their
business objective”, he added.
In his remarks, the Regional
technical officer Engr. Yahaya Yusuf says more than 20 transformers have been
attacked by vandals across the Zamfara Region network recently.
Engr. Yahya who narrated the
ugly experience Zamfara Regional Office has been going through at the hands of
vandals, reiterated the company’s resolve to continue working with critical
stakeholders to ensure that the elements perpetrating the dastardly act are
apprehended and brought to book.
According to him, there is no
day that passes without the company receiving a report of an electrical
installation being attacked by vandals.
“It has gone so bad that the
vandals now go as far as draining transformer oil, even after carting away the
armored cables, a situation which is disheartening,” he said.
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