NEMSA certifies meters supply by Jos disco

THE Managing Director of Jos Electricity Distribution PLC Mallam Mohammed Modibo has stated that controversy surrounding meters installed by JED has been laid to rest saying the meters taken to NEMSA Certification Centre in Kaduna were confirmed to be properly calibrated and functioning properly.

It would be recalled that early this year some residence of Jos, Plateau State petitioned NEMSA alleging that the meters deployed than were not properly calibrated and were not certified by NEMSA.

In his welcome address at the Customer Consultative Forum on Wednesday, the Managing Director said with the relaunch of the metering programme, the company will remain focus and will not entertain any deliberate attempt to interrupt the programme.

According to him, the regulator has given JED the permission to disconnect any customer who refuses to be metered and warned that any customer found stealing electricity bypassing the meters installed will be persecuted in accordance with the law.

“The Regulator has given us the permission to disconnect any customer who refuses to be metered. I will like to warn that any customer found stealing electricity by bypassing the meter installed by our staff will be prosecuted in accordance with the law. Electricity theft is a criminal offence which will no longer be tolerated by JED PLC” he warned.

Mallam Modibo further enumerated that the company took over the business at a time when the basic infrastructure for supply of electricity had suffered decades of neglect in terms of maintenance and network credibility.

He added that immediately JED took over, it mapped the main areas that required urgent intervention which include, replacement of some obsolete transformers and other network equipment, metering and credible and efficient billing platform as well as cleansing of customer data among other things.

Modibo added that one of the major achievements of the organization was the successful migration to the entire customer database from the old billing system, the NEBSA platform, to the new JED-CLOUD-STRATUM customer information and billing system.

He assured customers of the regular power supply and enjoined to partner with JED in meeting its obligations to the people of Plateau, Benue, and Bauch and Gombe state.