The Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) has commenced a nationwide survey of the standards of work done by the 11 distribution companies in their connection of consumers to their networks.
NEMSA, which was recently signed off by the federal government to carry out electrical inspectorate services for Nigeria’s electricity industry, especially with regards to enforcing statutory technical standards and regulations of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said that it was going ahead to push the Discos to guarantee safety of their installations in their respective networks.
Starting with the Abuja distribution network where it discovered instances of hazardous electrical installations within and outside of the city, NEMSA disclosed that it will assert its inspectorate authority on the operator of the distribution network, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to immediately rectify the anomalies.
NEMSA’s Managing Director, Peter Ewesor told reporters when he conducted a tour of public electricity installations in the city that the agency will not hesitate to impose the necessary penalties on distribution networks that fail to rectify reported instances of hazardous electrical installations in their networks.
