The Managing Director of Jos Electricity Distribution Plc, Engr Abdu Bello Mohammed, has disclosed that the company will sanitise its networks in the four franchise states to prevent future accidents.
In a statement signed by the company’s Head of Corporate Communications, Dr. Friday Adakole Elijah, Engr. Mohammed disclosed this in his office during a courtesy call by the two in-house unions to commiserate with him on the Kabong unfortunate incident of last Saturday.
The Managing Director, who was pained by the occurrence of the accident, disclosed that “we are doing everything possible to address the challenges so that it does not happen again “, stressing, “We will sanitize our networks for the safety of our customers and even ourselves “and adding, “We are going to replace all our wooden cross-arms with fiber cross-arms”.
On what the company was going to do regarding the victims, the managing director, who expressed the determination of the company to keep supporting the families of the deceased and those injured during the accident, said that the company would still be going to the community to commiserate with them.
In his words, “We will still be going back to the community to re-commiserate with them as they prepare to bury their loved ones in conformity with their faith “.
Earlier, the Assistant Secretary-General of the National Union of Electricity Employees, Comrade Sikamta Ali Mshelinga, who spoke on behalf of the leadership of the two in-house unions, said they decided to visit the Chief Executive Officer to console him as a critical stakeholder in the industry.
According to him, “We were worried and pained when we heard about the unfortunate incident. This is because, as part of the company, whatever affects the company also affects us”.
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