The Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has called for a sustainable collaboration between regional managers and security agencies in checkmating illegal activities impeding the growth and development of the company.
This is contained in a communiqué issued by the company at the end of a stakeholders’ engagement organised for all the divisional police officers and the chairmen of the 44 local government councils in Kano state on Wednesday.
In the communiqué signed by the Managing Director, Dr Jamilu Gwamna, the company noted that collaboration with local government administrators and security agencies would improve power supply in its franchise areas.
It said that KEDCO would organise a sensitisation engagement for transformer committee chairmen across its coverage areas.
It added that customers due for disconnection should be duly notified through SMS.
The communiqué alsoalso stre the need for security intervention in safeguarding KEDCO’s installations.
It stated that this would cover the destruction of distribution transformers, draining of transformer oil, theft of aluminium conductors, illegal connection, hanging wires and meter by pass.
It also stated that there was the need for council chairmen to sensitise their communities that KEDCO was no longer NEPA.
It stated that this would make them realise the need for prompt payment of bills.
The communiqué appealed to council chairmen to help in discouraging people from erecting structures and allocating land under high tension, adding that it had both regulatory and health implications for them.
It stressed the need for community policing as a tool for reducing the rampant cases of vandalism and other illegal activities hindering the growth of the power sector.
The communiqué called on communities to always report faulty transformers to KEDCO instead of engaging the services of non-professionals, saying this would go a long way in reducing vandalism. (NAN)
