By Chinwendu Nnadozie/ Minna
The new Business Manager (BM), Power Holding Company of Nigeria
(PHCN), Minna, E O Paul, has cautioned staff to rise up to the challenges of
their jobs by avoiding acts of laxity and other behaviours capable of dragging
the image of the company to disrepute in the course of discharging their
duties.
Paul spoke against the backdrop of allegations that some staff connive with
unauthorised persons to sabotage the company in the distribution of electricity
in parts of the state, including Dutsen Kura-Gwari area, which has for years
been faced with supply challenges due to illegal connections and constant
tampering with PHCN installations.
It was however gathered that electricity supply in some parts of Dutsen
Kura-Gwari area has for years been under ‘load-shedding’, a development said to
have caused by the attitude of some PHCN officials who connive with some retired
workers of the agency to indiscriminately tamper with cables.
Apart from constant tampering with cables during power outage, load-shedding,
illegal connections, including burying cables under-ground to extend electricity
to houses distances away from main power source or transformers is very
rife.
Other factors aiding the activities of those in the illegal business of the
PHCN in some areas include total aberration from the master plan as the shanty
nature of the area aids the perpetrators in perfecting illegal under-ground
connections. This, the source said, is causing severe damage to the company’s
installations
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